Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of amateur ethnologist and archaeologist James R. Coates (1909-1987); donated to MAI by James Coates in 1973.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Sioux
- Previous owner
- James R. Coates (James Richard Coates), Non-Indian, 1909-1987
- Donor
- James R. Coates (James Richard Coates), Non-Indian, 1909-1987
- Object Name
- War club
- Media/Materials
- Hide, stone
- Techniques
- Pecked
- Object Type
- Hunting/Fishing/Warfare: Warfare
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