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Well forged one piece steel head of the smaller type, with functional pipe bowl on the top. Right hand face of blade inlaid with a small copper crescent. Type of1840-60 period. (refer: Harold Peterson "American Indian Tomahawks" no. 162). Plain wooden stem, slightly tapered at mouth end.
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Details
- Title: Pipe-Tomahawk
- Location: New York (not certain), United States, North America
- Physical Dimensions: L: 49.2cm H: 15.5cm
- Type: Pipe Tomahawk
- Rights: This image was obtained from the Smithsonian Institution. The image or its contents may be protected by international copyright laws. http://www.si.edu/termsofuse
- External Link: View this object record in the Smithsonian Institution Collections Search Center
- Medium: Steel, wood, copper
- USNM Catalog Number(s): E422063
- Photo Credit: Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History
- Field: Ethnology
- Date Collected: 1850
- Accession Date: 1982-04-23
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