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represent the " club which they use to break the skull when they 

 are at war." 



The late Rev. F. P. Winne, of Watertown N. Y., gave the writer 

 an interesting account of sundry relics of King Philip, which came 

 into the hands of the Rev. John Checkley, Mr Winne's maternal 

 ancestor. Among these was King Philip's war club, which was in 

 the hands of another descendant living in New Hartford N. Y., 

 some 20 years ago. Thence it went to Maine. Mr Winne wrote : 



The club I have had in my hands many times, and can describe 

 it. It is a piece of hard wood, — hard maple, I think — about 14 

 inches long, shaped somewhat like this, (figure) a solid ball about 

 4 inches in diameter, which, with the handle, is cut out of one piece 

 of wood. Along the handle on both sides are inserted triangular 

 pieces of what appear to be, and I suppose are oyster shells; the 

 dark pieces showing the number of Indians Philip had killed, and 

 the light pieces the whites. Winne 



John Josselyn, in 1675, said of the New England Indians, that 

 they have " tomahawks which are staves two feet and a half long, 

 with a knob at the end as round as a bowl, and as big as that we 

 call the Jack or Mistriss." Josselyn, 23:309 



This will suffice to show the identity and use of two noted war 

 implements. Mr Morgan figured and described two kinds of war 

 clubs; one of horn with an inserted blade, derived from the west 

 and often illustrated by Catlin. The other is one of the primitive 

 New York forms, terminated by a large knot or stone ball. These 

 balls, of grooved or ungrooved stone, were frequent here and quite 

 recently in use, The long grooved pebbles of Seneca lake seem to 

 have had a different purpose. Figure 28 shows a wooden club of 

 this kind, the large ball being of the same piece as the handle. The 

 Onondagas call this kah-jee'-kwaJi. Sometimes a carved hand 

 clasps the ball, but they are often quite simple. Figure 29 is an 

 Onondaga club of this kind, belonging to the writer. It was used 

 in dances and is black, of hard wood, and 22 inches long. David 

 Cusick has both of Morgan's forms in his quaint pictures. 



Mr Morgan did not class thespear among Iroquois weapons, nor 

 did he think they used it. Suitable points for this are quite rare 

 on Iroquois sites, but there are early allusions to it, possibly as an 



