Root Club (made for sale)
Penobscot
Wabanaki
Northeast Woodlands
Woodlands
collected 1902-1909
Birch wood and root
Overall: 19 11/16 × 9 in. (50 × 22.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill
46.17.9904
Geography
Place Made: Old Town, United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Armament
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Woodlands
Not on view
Inscriptions
Written on club "War club Old Town, Maine"
Exhibition History
The Arts of Native America, The Eastern Woodland: Algonkian and Iroquois, Dartmouth College Museum and Galleries, Anthropology and History Collections, East Gallery, Wilson Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 6-November 11, 1979.
Provenance
Unknown maker, Old Town, Maine; collected by Clara G. Corser Turner Churchill (1851-1945) and Frank Carroll Churchill (1850-1912), Old Town, Maine, 1902-1909; bequeathed to present collection, 1946.
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