The lot features a beaded floppy head war club from the Sioux Indians. The piece is comprised of a wood haft handle covered in old Indian brain-tanned Buffalo Bison hide, with an artful beaded banded linear geometric pattern, a fringe wrap at the bottom and head that is a 3-inches-long hard stone covered in hide. These type of floppy head war clubs were almost exclusively used on horseback and were effective. Later in the Indian Reservation era after the Indian wars these were used as dance objects in smaller form. The haft measures 24 inches in length and the fringes is an additional 12 inches.