Western Frontier, Native American, Antiques New Year January 15th Auction
Sat, Jan 15, 2022 11:00AM EST
Live Auction
Lot 205
Northern Plains Skull Cracker War Club c. 1880
Estimate: $950 - $1,650
Bid Increments
| Price | Bid Increment |
|---|---|
| $0 | $5 |
| $50 | $10 |
| $100 | $25 |
| $500 | $50 |
| $1,000 | $100 |
| $2,000 | $250 |
| $5,000 | $500 |
| $10,000 | $1,000 |
| $25,000 | $2,500 |
| $100,000 | $5,000 |
This is an excellent stone head skull cracker war club with actual tip of horse tail and vertebrae from the Northern Plains Native American region, dating to the fourth-quarter of the 19th Century. The circa 1880’s war club features a solid stone head on wood haft handle, completely covered in thick, likely horse, parfleche rawhide that is sinew rawhide sewn and has an actual horse's tail end attached as a drop. The drop consists of the horse tail end with a tanned hide section holding the original bone vertebrae, wrapped with an Indian tanned buckskin hide gasket with fringe on either end and sinew sewn with 1800’s period correct glass trade seed cen beads in colors of chalk white, cobalt, and Cheyenne pink. Authentic 19th Century examples from solid collections do not come up for sale often, with this being a truly wonderful example in well-preserved museum condition with scarcely seen vertebrae, horse tail drop. Provenance: From a private museum collection in the Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes region of France. The piece measures overall with the drop 35” L, with the war club itself being 17” L to the end of the bone vertebrae. The head is 2.5” x 2 3/8” x 2”.
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