Pipe tomahawk
date: label: Date created
content: 1780-1800
name: label: Culture/People
content: Shawnee
label: Previous owner
content: Chief Tecumseh (Tecumtha/Tekamthi/Shooting Star/Tekoomse/The One Who Passes Across Intervening Space from One Point to Another), Shawnee, 1768-1813
label: Possible owner
content: General Russell, Non-Indian
label: Possible owner
content: Luther Russell, Non-Indian, 1773-1851
label: Previous owner
content: Luther Russell, II, Non-Indian, 1814-1894
label: Previous owner
content: Ephraim E. Russell (E. E. Russell), Non-Indian, 1850-1926
label: Previous owner
content: Samuel Wallace Cowles (S. W. Cowles), Non-Indian, 1826-1900
label: Previous owner
content: Abel E. Brooks (A.E. Brooks), Non-Indian, 1833-1917
notes: label: Collection History
content: Said to have belonged to Tecumseh (Shawnee, 1768-1813) and obtained at his death by "General Russell"; more likely acquired by Luther Russell (1773-1851), who served in the Massachusetts militia during the War of 1812 and settled in Burton, Ohio, after the war; documented in the possession of Luther Russell's son, Luther Russell (1814-1894) by 1880; transferred to a son of the second Luther Russell, Ephraim E. Russell (1850-1926); sold by Ephraim Russell to Samuel Wallace Cowles (1826-1900, a collector in Hartford, Connecticut), in 1881; acquired from Samuel Cowles in 1891 by Abel E. Brooks (1833-1917, a renowned collector of Civil War firearms); acquired by George Heye from an unknown source in 1906.
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place: label: Place
content: Eastern Woodlands; USA (inferred)
setName: label: See related items
content: Shawnee
label: See related items
content: Personal items
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of the American Indian
identifier: label: Catalog Number
content: 1/1158
label: Barcode
content: 011158.000
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Personal items
physicalDescription: label: Object Name
content: Pipe tomahawk
label: Media/Materials
content: Wood, iron/steel head, silver
label: Techniques
content: Inlaid