Pipe tomahawk (Image withheld)
date: label: Date created
content: 1870-1890
name: label: Culture/People
content: probably Lakota (Teton/Western Sioux) (attributed)
label: Collector
content: L. W. Richards, Non-Indian
label: Previous owner
content: Abel E. Brooks (A.E. Brooks), Non-Indian, 1833-1917
label: Artist/Maker
content: L. W. Richards, Non-Indian
notes: label: Collection History
content: Collection history unknown, but said to have been collected on December 29, 1890 from the site of the Wounded Knee Massacre in South Dakota by L.W. Richards of the US Army's Seventh Cavalry; sold to Abel E. Brooks (1833-1917, a renowned collector of Civil War firearms) or an intermediate party in April 1891 when Richards was stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas; acquired by George Heye from an unknown source in 1906.
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place: label: Place
content: North Dakota or South Dakota; USA (inferred)
setName: label: See related items
content: Lakota (Teton/Western Sioux)
label: See related items
content: Personal items
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of the American Indian
identifier: label: Catalog Number
content: 1/1159
label: Barcode
content: 011159.000
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Personal items
physicalDescription: label: Object Name
content: Pipe tomahawk (Image withheld)
label: Media/Materials
content: Iron/steel head, wood
label: Techniques
content: Carved