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Plains Beaded Skullcracker Club, Attributed to Crow Foot (Lakota, 1876-1890)

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:6,000.00 USD Estimated At:6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD
Plains Beaded Skullcracker Club, Attributed to Crow Foot (Lakota, 1876-1890)
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DESCRIPTION
25.25" rawhide-covered haft with 4" x 2.5" stone head. Haft decorated in sections of beadwork in white, light blue, red, and tubular red. Some orange coloring remaining on head. Tag on haft reads "WAR CLUB/BELONGED TO/CROW FOOT-SON/OF SITTING BULL/FROM W.H. KING MUSEUM/HOT SPRINGS, ARK." Crow Foot, named after the eminent Blackfoot Chief, was the son of Lakota Chief Sitting Bull (TÈŸatȟáŋka Ãyotake) of the Hunkpapa Lakota. He was known as being wise for his age, not wishing to join the other boys in their games as young men usually did. At the behest of his father, he was educated in a Congregational day school and learned to read and write English. Crow Foot was killed alongside his father on December 15, 1890 at the Standing Rock Reservation in South Dakota. Several accounts of his death have been published, with varying degrees of involvement (or lack thereof) by Crow Foot. $6,000-$9,000