Native American Plains Indian Stone War-Club Hunting-Maul, Wood Handle Raw Hide Bound

Basalt stone head, held and bound with rawhide with tassles and a small tail of beadwork. Possibly, Lakota, Dakota, Nakoda style. Known as an iwatajinga, they can have conical pointed stone heads, right through to round stone heads. The term Nakota (or Nakoda or Nakona) is the endonym used by those native peoples of North America who usually go by the name of Assiniboine (or Hohe), in the United States, and of Stoney, in Canada.

They are Dakotan-speaking tribes that broke away from the main branches of the Sioux nation in earlier times. They moved farther from the original territory in the woodlands of what is now Minnesota into the northern and northwestern regions: Montana and North Dakota in the United States, and Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta in Canada. Later they became competitors for resources and enemies of their former language-family "allies". (In each of the dialects, nakota, dakota and lakota means "friend" or "ally".).
Probably late 19th early 20th century. 19 inches long, stone head 4.75 inches across.
Importing this indigenous native item into the USA is not possible. It is completely understandable that it is no longer possible to export American indigenous native art and artifacts from America in order to preserve the cultural integrity of Native US artifacts within America, but taking this rule to an entirely mystical level of curiousness, it is no longer legal to import such pieces back into America either, ie to return them from whence they came.??? Thus American bureaucracy insists nothing of such valuable early native history is allowed to leave anymore, but they don’t want anything back either.

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