Native American bison horn club

Battara · 20th March 2016, 02:04 AM

You could be right. This does look "reservation" period to me.

Others may be of more help.

Timo Nieminen · 20th March 2016, 04:18 AM

This doesn't look like a weapon to me. Sure, some heavy thing on the end of a stick will hurt somebody if you hit them with it, but points and edges on the hitty parts are good, and this doesn't have them.

So dance/ceremonial/tourist looks likely.

Tim Simmons · 20th March 2016, 02:22 PM

Well it has clearly been handled a great deal. Not the best quality work. Must be a symbolic weapon for dance. It could even have been made by impoverish reservation Native American from scraps of trade goods for the ghost dance? why not we do not know? who would know one way or the other?

Another thing about Native American stuff. It does not always have to look really old. I add these pictures because of the large detail picture but could add many other pictures. You can see there is age but the items are not in tatters or heavily marked. Just something to think on.

From, The Plains Indians - Artists of Earth and Sky, Musee Du Quai Branly, SkiraRizzoli 2014.

20th March 2016, 02:22 PM	#3
Tim Simmons Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: What is still UK Posts: 5,855	Well it has clearly been handled a great deal. Not the best quality work. Must be a symbolic weapon for dance. It could even have been made by impoverish reservation Native American from scraps of trade goods for the ghost dance? why not we do not know? who would know one way or the other? Another thing about Native American stuff. It does not always have to look really old. I add these pictures because of the large detail picture but could add many other pictures. You can see there is age but the items are not in tatters or heavily marked. Just something to think on. From, The Plains Indians - Artists of Earth and Sky, Musee Du Quai Branly, SkiraRizzoli 2014. Attached Images Last edited by Tim Simmons; 20th March 2016 at 02:33 PM.

20th March 2016, 02:04 AM	#1
Battara EAAF Staff Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Louisville, KY Posts: 7,280	You could be right. This does look "reservation" period to me. Others may be of more help.

20th March 2016, 04:18 AM	#2
Timo Nieminen Member Join Date: Mar 2012 Posts: 422	This doesn't look like a weapon to me. Sure, some heavy thing on the end of a stick will hurt somebody if you hit them with it, but points and edges on the hitty parts are good, and this doesn't have them. So dance/ceremonial/tourist looks likely.