File:Clevelandart 1991.21.jpg

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Ball-Headed Club   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Ball-Headed Club
Description
This club carries one of the richest known records of images representing Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) clan (nindoodem) identities; clan relationships shaped native politics through the 1800s. Included is an antlered creature, perhaps a caribou, along with mammals, birds, and powerful spirit beings: the thunderbird, its wings outstretched, and perhaps the long-tailed underwater panther. The ball at the striking end is held in a jaw-like form that likely refers to an animal’s muzzle; such imagery invoked a protector being that endowed the club’s owner with power.
Date 1775
date QS:P571,+1775-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium Wood (maple?)
Dimensions Overall: 58.6 x 7.8 x 13.1 cm (23 1/16 x 3 1/16 x 5 3/16 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q657415
Current location
Art of the Americas
Accession number
1991.21
Place of creation Native North America, Woodlands, Great Lakes, Post-contact Period
Credit line Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
Source/Photographer https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.21
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