Root club

17 1/2" Penopscot Handcarved and Engraved Root Club. Maine. Spiked Wooden Mace. Circa 1920. Hand carved decorative handle. Native American face emerging thru the leather haft

Native American, Northeast United States, Maine, Penobscot, ca. 1900s to 1950s CE. A root club hand-carved with a canine or skunk-like face on the spiked head, and the handle is etched with a leaf pat

Iroquois figural club. Hand carved from a birch root burl. Two-sided carved design with faces; 26in.H.

Native American, United States, Northeast coast, Maine, Wabanaki Confederacy, Penobscot tribe, ca. early to mid-20th century CE. A rare and impressive root club, hand-carved with a stylized head resem

Title: Penobscot root club ca Late 19th century Dimensions: 27 1/2" long Provenance/Additional Info: A very well carved and whimsical grimacing warrior on a burled birch root stem. Fully carved shaft.

Carved Native American birch root club with chip carved handle and native American carved and enameled face profile, 20th century. Measures: 28 1/2" High x 10 1/2" Wide.

PENOBSCOT NATIVE AMERICAN ROOT CLUB, natural and carved point top, featuring chip-carved fern decoration to handle. Together with a shorter Native American wooden club having carved decorati

PENOBSCOT NATIVE AMERICAN CARVED WOODEN ROOT CLUB, featuring an Indian warrior head, chip-carved fern decoration to handle. First quarter 20th century. 18" L.

Antique Native American carved birch root figural club, featuring a portrait with some bark remaining, the handle chip-carved with foliate and arrow motifs, possibly by the Penobscot peoples, late 19t

Title: Vintage Penobscot Root Club Date/Period: c. 20th century Materials: wood Dimension: 28"L Description: Carved and painted birch root club, Maine Native American, souvenir trade. Features a Chief

A Penobscot Root Club Provenance: Property from a Chicago Gallery Height: 24 inches 
 
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Hand painted naturalistic form. 26 inches (overall)

These two root clubs are probably circa. 1890 and 1920 era tourist pieces. Root clubs started as weapons, then became ceremonial tools as spirit clubs, then became tourist pieces.One is a small 19 inc

Made from the root ball and trunk of a small tree, the root clubs has been traced and documented to have been made pre-European contact. Traditionally used as weapons, some later ones were thought to

Item: Early Penobscot root club made from cherry wood knot with a dark untouched surface Date: Late 18th/early 19th century Maker: Penobscot Nation Dimensions: 24 x 4 x 4 inches The Penobscot Indian N

Rare antique Native American Penobscot carved root tribal war club. The clubs handle features a hand carved Indian motif terminating with the carved head of the figure. The Penobscot (Panawahpskek) ar

A south seas root stock club, 43" long with chip carved grip (bears an old catalog number)

Mid-19th c. in classical spirit form, all-natural root ball, excluding one spike faintly carved as an Eagle head, chip carved handle, lightly varnished over well-used patina. 28" long, 8" head.

NATIVE AMERICAN PENOBSCOT ROOT SPIRIT CLUB, carved rhinoceros-like figure at top, chip-carved fern decoration to handle. Together with a decorative example of modern vintage. Penobscot example first q

Last quarter of the 19th century. War clubs such as this were used by the Iroquois, Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, and Abenaki. Originally for tribal war which was fundamental to the evolution of young men

Beautifully carved classical form club by Penobscot artisan Joe Hugga Dana with black to unfinished wood chip carved handle, retaining bottom cuff of birch paper bark, the top having a portrait of an

20th c. Oversized Club with natural form head, carved with painted portrait of a Sioux War Chief in Bonnet, chip carved handle, red stained, 34" long, 10" head. Some loss to bark. 33" long, 10" head,

1940s hand painted decorative club, with green painted handle chip carved into the natural wood color; the head with relief cared 'Indian Chief" in bonnet, the spikes carved into deer head, eagle and

Mid 20th c. Classical Form stripped of bark except heel of handle, chip carved handle, eagle head carved root spike, in natural finish, 27" x 9".