Another example of a typical Southeastern woodland style of gunstock warclub, of which there were undoubtedly many variations. The metal blade here was a broken and repurposed Spanish lancehead.
From bottom to top, a classic hand carved ball headed warclub, made of ebonized white oak, a heavy Horse Jaw-bone club, and a lighter weight hickory cudgel which is in essence a shillelagh. Bonus non-mace primitive weapon: a hand tillered mulberrywood choctaw style ponybow and dogwood arrow
This particular double bladed design is more typical of a style found out in the great plains, utilized by the Sioux and Lakota, single, double, and triple bladed variants of this style have been described in the literature and can be found in museums and private collections occasionally. This particular club was hand carved from white oak,
Carved out of southern black maple wood, the triagular "blade" is actually made out of a dense hard rubber, as per request from the gentleman who commissioned it; he is a reenactor who intended to use this during reenactments of the Creek Wars in Alabama in simulated hand to hand combat, and didn't want to actually kill anyone.
Couple of pouch/bags I fashioned out of a large turtle shell, and turtle plastrons respectively. The first one is very useful for foraging for berries because it prevents them from getting pulverized and I stuff the second one with crushed beautyberry leaves and wear it around my neck or off my belt as a natural mosquito repellent , very useful when I'm out on the bayou scavenging for bones or edible plants.
A nicely weighted octagonal carved truncheon carved out of shagbark hickory, studded front and back with wild boar molars. I call it Jaw Breaker.
A variety of hand carved warclubs I've constructed, based on historical accounts, primarly of the sort typical amongst tribes in the South Eastern Woodlands
Three different war clubs fashioned from Jawbones, Bison, horse, and , cow respectively. The bottom jawbone is carved in Caddoan motif, a stylized eagle head. The center warclub is indicative of a later plains style. The type at the top, were often times mounted on a haft, to make a proto-tomahawk type of weapon...but all my attempts at doing so have yielded a weapon that wouldn't stand up to the repeated blows of combat, and so I have chosen to not include the hafted version, which may have been simply ceremonial, and not an actual weapon.
Weighs a ton, probably should have made it smaller , you'd wear your arm out swinging this at the Mesopotamians for any length of time. Probably only really suitable for braining captives..and delivering the mercy strike on your wounded comrades
Black Tupelo swamp, Lost Bayou Bottoms, Rapides Parish La..
Pumpkin Ash,least I'm pretty sure that's what it is. stumbled across this fat bottomed gal while out bushwackin' in the Kisatchie National Forest somewhere around Glenmollllll
Louisiana. Ain't she a beaut?