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An 8 page investigation of the Iroquois war club. This paper describes form and function both as they existed in pre-Contact times and as they changed after contact with European cultures. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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of the world. As is the case for much indigenous art, a significant body of Iroquois art is as much functional as it is beautiful and exquisitely crafted.
The Iroquois war club fits into this utilitarian category. The Iroquois war club is interesting as well because it records a transition over time, a transition that was prompted
to a great degree by the Iroquois interaction with the Europeans that invaded their lands. The Iroquois war club was first described in
the written record by Father Joseph Francois Lafitau (Jones 48). Lafitau lived between 1681 and 1746 and part of his life work was conducted in the so-called "New World"
among the indigenous peoples of that world (Jones 48). Lafitau described both the lifeways and the tools used in those lifeways of the cultures he encountered the northeastern expanses
of this great continent. He wrote that the offensive weapons used by these people included the "bow and Arrow, the war club and the thrusting spear" (Jones 48).
The war club, Lafitau asserted, was the "preferred close-in weapon" of these people (Jones 48). The war club was, and in
fact is, a formidable weapon that is associated with the Iroquois in particular. Typically only two to two and one-half feet long, the war club can be brandished in
hand to hand combat where weapons like the bow and arrow are used at a distance. Even the thrusting spears described by Lafitau are reserved for use at a
greater distance than that reserved for the war club. The war club is used much as its name would suggest. Held at the end of its handle the
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