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Lakota club

Lakota club

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Titles: Lakota club (Supplied title)

Description: A Lakota Sioux club reportedly owned by Sitting Bull, the Lakota chief, and used in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876. The wood handle is bound in rawhide and partially encloses an ellipsoid stone head at one end. The stone may be dolomite.

Dates

  • Exactly 1876 (According to legacy records, the club was used in the "Custer fight" -- i.e., the Battle of Little Bighorn, which took place in 1876.) (Use)

Creation

Identifiers

  • Accession Number: 2116.E217

Credit: Minnesota Historical Society Collections

Holding Type: 3D Objects

Quantity: 1 item

Format

  • Content Category: artifacts

Measurements

  • 22 inches length
  • 1/2 inch diameter (handle)
  • 2 1/2 inches width (head)
  • 1 5/8 inches depth (head)

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Lakota club

Collections items are not for sale.
A reproduction can be purchased.