Pipe Tomahawk
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1868
name: label: Donor Name
content: Rev. David Thompson
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "double-winged iron blade, with three small holes near the sharp end of blade, and with a 1 1/2" brass boss attached to each flat side of the blade. Pipe bowl at back end. Wooden stem grooved on the bottom, and about half wrapped with medium weight copper wire. Known as the Spanish type tomahawk. 3/8/56 this specimen is catalogued in archeology as "prehistoric" which is clearly an error, as it shows no evidence of even being buried, so is being preserved in ethnology, where it belongs. -R. Elder, Jr. Refer to: BAE Bull. 30. Pt. 2, p. 260 where ill. Also. McGuire, USNM, R. 1897, p. 467, ill. 88, where it is given incorrect cat. No. 13,515. As well as incorrect collector. Sometime in the early 1960s the steel head of this item apparently was stolen from the dept. collection by a boy from one of the Indian dance groups who had been given study privileges. After numerous unsuccessful operations by the FBI, the museum was notified by Norman Feder of the Denver Colorado art museum that this item had turned up at their place, and though the circumstances were never explained, he returned it to the USNM. 9/4/1962. When the two parts are attempted to be fitted, there is a major discrepancy between the hole in the head and the proper head of the stem – the latter being much too small,. However since the pieces appear to fit the above illust. We can only assume they are correct. – Robert Elder”
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 May 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Milnersville, Guernsey County, Ohio, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 001438
label: USNM Number
content: E7339-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pipe Tomahawk