Anishinaabe war club, hardwood carving, c. 1750.
Sculpted to resemble a deer's leg, this weapon of war, likely Ojibwe, is burnished with red pigment. A projecting spike may have once adorned the spherical head.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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