Tomahawk
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1932
name: label: Donor Name
content: Tom Bacon Rind
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Metal ax-shaped blade, with wooden haft covered with red felt and provided at end with a belled and feathered tassel. Loaned to Osage Agency. Bu. Ind. Affairs. 10/1/37 Returned Fall 1968".
label: Notes
content: Illus. p. 78 in Bailey, Garrick A., and Daniel C. Swan. 2004. Art of the Osage. Seattle: University of Washington Press/Saint Louis Art Museum. Identified there as a as steel bladed war hatchet with bleeding heart on blade, a favorite motif among the Osage, came from French traders; handle covered with red broadcloth; hawk bells attached to end of handle, and also attached are adult golden-eagle tail feathers, "... which represent the war honors won by the weapon's owner".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Aug 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Pawhuska, Osage County, Oklahoma, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Osage (Wazhazhe)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 120063
label: USNM Number
content: E364512-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Axe