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Skull Cracker War Club

Unknown

Possibly Southwest

circa 1880s

Rawhide, stone

1983.32.21

On View

Hunting & War

Gift of Forrest Bratley

A powerful weapon used by Indigenous people in the Americas for thousands of years, the Skull Craker war club gets its name for its effect in battle. Some of these war clubs have a flexible top allowing for addtional force to be applied to a strike.

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