This is a fabulous circa 1890 buffalo horn beaded Ghost Dance club from the Lakota Sioux of the Northern Plains. The club exhibits Great American Bison Buffalo polished calf horns secured to the wooden haft with a wrap of parfleche rawhide which is covered in sinew sewn beadwork. The handle is wrapped in Indian hide which is sinew sewn and adorned with sinew sewn beadwork. The beadwork is all 19th-century glass trade seed beads, period correct with a banded and geometric stepped and cross design. The beads show colors of red white heart, greasy green, greasy yellow, cobalt dark blue, chalk white, Cheyenne pink, black, greasy butterscotch yellow, and light blue. There is some slight loss to the beadwork which shows the sinew strands and the beadwork has some preservation sap or glue in spots to prevent loss. The club has amazing, original patina and displays beautifully. The Ghost Dance of 1890 was founded by Northern Paiute spiritual leader Wovoka in response to the subjugation of the Native American people and was thought to reunite the living with spirits of the dead so that they could fight on their behalf and end U.S. expansion, bring peace and prosperity to the Native American peoples. Seen as an uprising the U.S. Government responded with the killing of Chief Sitting Bull and the Wounded Knee Massacre. This club is overall well preserved with expected wear and loss and measures 22.5-inches long by 7.25-inches wide.