Entitled: "Sauvage Iroquois" showing an Indian holding tomahawk and club, colored engraving by J. Laroque after drawing by Jaques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, 1796. The Iroquois, also known as the Haudenosaunee, or the Six Nations, (the Five Nations before 1722), are a historically powerful and important northeast Native American confederacy comprised of the Six Nations: Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, Seneca and Tuscarora. The Ball-Headed War Clubs, used by the Iroquois and Algonquian tribes of the eastern woodlands, were asymmetrical, often curved wooden clubs with the handle and heavy round head both carved from a single piece of wood. Nearly every Native American tribe used some form of bow and arrow as a weapon for hunting, war, or both. Most Native American bows were made of wood with bowstrings made from sinew. Arrows were wooden with arrowheads made of flint or another hard stone, although some tribes used copper or bone arrowheads, and hunting arrows intended for small game like birds often had no arrowhead at all and were simply sharpened shafts of wood. American Indian arrows were nearly always fletched with feathers to make them fly straighter.