This is a fully beaded stone headed skull cracker war club dating to the early 1900's from the Sioux Native American Indians. The piece shows a dual cone carved stone head which is secured to the wood haft handle with a wrap of parfleche rawhide sitting in a carved groove in the stone and covered with Indian tanned hide which is adorned with beadwork. The handle shows an old trade canvas clothe covering which has been completely covered in all period correct early glass trade seed beads in a linear crazy pattern. The beadwork shows many colors including sky blue, greasy blue, cobalt, corn yellow, greasy yellow, butterscotch yellow, red white hearts, greasy Cheyenne pink, medium green, black, red, green and many more. The bottom shows the original hide tie strap wrist throng. This piece measures 12 1/2" long with the stone measuring 3 1/2" long by 1 3/4" in diameter.