Ball-headed club

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Culture/People: Ontario Ojibwe
Previous owner: Mary French, Chippewa/Ojibwa
Collector: Mark Raymond Harrington (M. R. Harrington/MRH), Non-Indian, 1882-1971
Seller: Covert & Harrington, Commercial Ethnologists

Collection History: Collected from Mary French (Ontario Ojibwe) in 1907 by anthropologist Mark Raymond Harrington (1882-1971, MAI staff member); purchased by George Heye, presumably from Harrington's firm, Covert & Harrington, Commercial Ethnologists (New York City), in 1907.
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Place: Munsee-Delaware Reserve (Muncey Reserve, Muncey Town, Munceytown); Middlesex County; Ontario; Canada

See related items: Ontario Ojibwe; Personal items

Data Source: National Museum of the American Indian

Catalog Number: 1/4621
Barcode: 014621.000

Object Type: Personal items
Indigenous Term: gua kwat poggamagun

Object Name: Ball-headed club
Media/Materials: Wood
Techniques: Carved

Metadata Usage: CC0

GUID: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6307c4648-8e43-4a9f-b52c-d870187b38ab

Record ID: NMAI_15720