Object Details
- Collector
- Dr. A. B. Campbell
- Donor Name
- Army Medical Museum
- ACCORDING TO JOHN C. EWERS ("THE AWESOME BEAR IN PLAINS INDIAN ART," AMERICAN INDIAN ART MAGAZINE 7(3):40, 1982) THIS IS DESCRIBED AS: "BEAR TRACKS INCISED AND PAINTED ON THE HANDLE OF A WAR CLUB BELONGING TO MAN-WITH-LEGS-WIDE-APART, CHIEF OF THE YANKTON SIOUX "HALF-BREEDS" [sic, i.e. mixed-blood or Metis?]. COLLECTED BY A.B. CAMPBELL, 1868." NOTES ADDED BY C. GREENE, 1/5/1999. As of 2006, this ball head club with metal spike has faded inked inscriptions on it, which have been transcribed on a typed card stored with the club in this way: "Club of Cha Chine Na, Yankton "Half-breed [sic, mixed-blood]." This club occupied the chief two months in carving it." Someone has added a translation for Cha Chine Na as "man with legs wide apart" on the typed card, and has noted "chief of Yankton Half-Breeds" [sic, mixed-bloods] as well. The typed card notes that white lettering was removed from the black paint on the face of the club. The card indicates the white lettering said: "AMM 92.B.6 Warclub of a Yankton Chief, Dr. A. B. Campbell U.S.A." - F. Pickering 5-24-2006
- Listed in the original AMM catalog as #92, War club of Cha Chainnah the chief of the Yankton half breeds [sic, mixed-bloods].
- Record Last Modified
- 15 Feb 2024
- Specimen Count
- 1
- Culture
- Sioux (Oceti Sakowin), Yankton (Ihanktonwan) Dakota
- Metis (?)
- Accession Date
- 18 Feb 1869
- Accession Number
- 416140
- USNM Number
- E8392-0
- Object Type
- Club
- Place
- Plains Northern, United States, North America
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- Anthropology
- NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
- Topic
- Ethnology
- Record ID
- nmnhanthropology_8481072
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3541201d0-26a7-41f5-ac80-06f112578a9b
