Ball head lobe

Ball head lobe
Information
Weapon type:	Club
Designations:	Ball head lobe
Use:	weapon
Region of origin / author:	North America , Canada , ethnic groups of the Wyandot , Ute , Iroquois
Distribution:	North America, Canada
Handle:	Wood
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The ball head lobe (engl. Ball club or ball-headed club ) is a blunt instrument North American tribes .

description

The ball head club is made of wood. It is round on the handle and widens from there to the impact head. The impact head is worked out as a ball. The entire shaft of the club can be decorated with traditional carvings. The ornament often depicts an animal holding the ball, such as the claws of an eagle or the teeth of a predator. These representations have a religious background with the different ethnic groups. The ball head lobe was u. a. used by the Ute , Wyandot and Iroquois . The ball-head club is available in different versions that differ in shape and decoration. Some of them are provided with a metal spike on the ball.

literature

• Museum für Völkerkunde (Austria): Association “Friends of Völkerkunde” (Austria), Archives for Ethnology, Volume 45-47. Publisher W. Braumüller, 1991.
• Colin F. Taylor: Native American Weapons. University of Oklahoma Press, 2005, ISBN 0-8061-3716-9 .
• Diagram Group: The New Weapons of the World Encyclopedia: An International Encyclopedia from 5000 BC to the 21st Century. St. Martin's Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-312-36832-6 .
• Michael G. Johnson, Richard Hook: American Woodland Indians. (= Men-at-arms. Volume 228). Osprey Publishing, 1990, ISBN 0-85045-999-0 .

Web links

Commons : Keulen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Information in the Pequot Museum
• Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Picture and description in Pitt Rivers Museum (English, accessed August 18, 2011)
2. ^ Carl Benn: The Iroquois in the War of 1812. University of Toronto Press, 1998, ISBN 0-8020-8145-2 , p. 76.