Tomahawk
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "French origin; spike-shaped blade, punctate decoration around margin; handle wrapped with strips of fur. Loaned: Dept. of Defense (Fort Sill) 9/13/61, returned: 5/11/1981." Per card, culture changed from Algonquin to Northeast Indians by W. Sturtevant, Curator for North American Ethnology 4/1985. Illus. and described on p. 373 of Gilman, Carolyn. 2003. Lewis and Clark across the divide. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books. Identified there as a spontoon axe, circa 1830 - 1850.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Aug 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Woodlands (Northeast), United States / Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Northeast Indian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E359628-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Axe