Pipe tomahawk
date: label: Date created
content: 1880-1900
name: label: Culture/People
content: Non-Indian; possibly used by the Niitsitapii (Blackfoot/Blackfeet)
label: Previous owner
content: King George, III (George William Frederick), Non-Indian, 1738-1820
label: Previous seller
content: E. C. Wilson, Non-Indian
label: Previous owner
content: William Ockleford Oldman (W.O. Oldman/William Ockelford Oldman), Non-Indian, 1879-1949
label: Seller
content: William Ockleford Oldman (W.O. Oldman/William Ockelford Oldman), Non-Indian, 1879-1949
notes: label: Collection History
content: Said to have been presented to a Blackfoot chief on behalf of King George III; formerly in the collection of a retired gunsmith in Birmingham, England, who said it had been obtained by his father between 1813 and 1833 during travel in North America to take orders for flintlock guns; acquired by William Ockleford Oldman (1879-1949, who did business as "W.O. Oldman, Ethnographical Specimens, London") in 1912 from E.C. Wilson; purchased by George Heye from W.O. Oldman in 1913.
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place: label: Place
content: England; United Kingdom (inferred)
setName: label: See related items
content: Non-Indian
label: See related items
content: Niitsitapii (Blackfoot/Blackfeet)
label: See related items
content: Personal items
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of the American Indian
identifier: label: Catalog Number
content: 3/2906
label: Barcode
content: 032906.000
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Personal items
physicalDescription: label: Object Name
content: Pipe tomahawk
label: Media/Materials
content: Brass head, wood, iron blade, steel, deerhide/deerskin
label: Techniques
content: Cast