Tomahawk

Object/Artifact

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Carbon County Museum

Name/Title

Tomahawk

Entry/Object ID

2015.1169.8.38

Description

Decorative tomahawk. Head a 3 1/2" wide gray worked stone, with 1 1/2" wide rawhide wrapped around it to attach to handle. Rawhide on the head has gold bead border, and stripes of blue and gold beads. Handle is covered in stitched rawhide. Both near the head and 3/4 of the way down the handle are rows of green and blue beads. Handle is 11 3/4" long. Attached to bottom of handle is rawhide tassles, with white, red, and green beads around their closer end, and plain rawhide strings coming out.

Collection

Permanent Collection