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Circa 1860
The gunstock club or gun stock war club is an indigenous weapon used by Native Americans, named for its similar appearance to the wooden stocks of muskets and rifles of the time
Gunstock clubs were most predominantly used by Eastern Woodland, Central and Northern Plains tribes in the 18th and 19th centuries
War clubs were usually made of straight grain hard woods like maple, ash, oak, hickory or hornbeam (depending on the region of its use) and weighed from two to three pounds
For example, an excavated Plains Indian carved gunstock club from the late 19th century was found set with three butcher knife blades marked "Lamson and Goodnow Mfg
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