This is a highly relief carved Eagle Effigy carved ball head war club from the Plains Native American Indians dating to the 19th Century. The early-to-mid-1800’s piece shows a root ball head with spherical smooth carved finish sitting at edge of the American Eagles open mouth having a triangular cutout. The haft has a typical Plains pattern with wide curved top with flat sides gradually tapering and curving towards the gripping area, which has a smooth area and ends with a sharp downward pointed pommel. The ball head is secured at the front with a heavy iron spike held into place with pour bullet lead. The club shows a highly carved Eagle head with several bands of triangular incised geometric patterns three tipi figures with four poles, leaves, or smoking coming from the top. Just above the gripping area is a beautiful incised geometric design with crescents, triangular patterns, hourglasses, and diagonal hatching. The same design is displayed on each side with slight various due to being hand crafted. The piece is very similar to the example shown in Harold L. Peterson’s 1965 book “American Indian Tomahawk” on page 85 figure / photograph 3 which shows a prominent ball with curved wide haft tapering to a round gripping area and being finely carved along with an animal effigy carving at the ball; attributed as being a mid-18th Century presented to Sir William Johnson 1746-1755 from Onondaga warriors. Provenance: From a historic Eastern Montana American Indian Collection, where the piece was found to be an authentic original, one of the finest collections of American Indian weaponry and antiquities in Montana. Measures 23”L by 7”W with the ball being 2.5” Diameter with a 1 7/8”L spike.