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War clubs (not maces) were used by almost all native American groups across the North American continent. These clubs are termed puggamaugun, which is the name used by Algonquian woodland tribes.

This weapon generally had a round, biconical or egg-shaped stone head, with a groove pecked around its circumference. It was firmly attached to a wooden handle with wet rawhide wrapped around both the grooved stone and the handle - this shrank on drying to form a hard, permanent join.

At first the handles were quite short, but when the Plains tribes obtained horses they made their war clubs much longer in order to use them from horseback.

The links below shows a typical war club and another image of a stone head with a pecked groove around it.

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