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IN NATURE for November 20, p. 55, there is a reference to the probable use of the carved and sometimes perforated antlers, by some called “batons de commandement.” By Mr. A. W. Franks and others, in the “Reliquiæ Aquitanicse,” the simpler forms are recognised as the “Pogamagan” {striker) of the North American Indian (pp. 40, 50, 189, 200, and pp. 30, 102, 159 and 180, of description of the plates iii. and iv, xv. and xvi., xxx. and xxxi.). It seems to me important to mention that in Westminster Abbey a Pogamagan is sculptured as being held in the right hand of a North American warrior on Colonel Townshend's mural tombstone (dated near the end of the eighteenth century), on the south side of the nave.
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JONES, T. Carved and Perforated Antlers . Nature 67, 174 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/067174c0
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