TomahawkPipe

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Tomahawk-Pipe

• Artifact Project

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Tomahawk-Pipe

• The tomahawk pipe was brought over by the
  Europeans and was traded to the Iroquois men for
  furs. It was used for presentation to important
  chiefs in order to commemorate treaties and seal
  friendships.

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What is it?

• A resourceful combination of weapon smoking
  pipe, invented by the Euro-Americans as a trading
  object with the Natives. A piece of equipment
  that every Euro-american and Native would have.

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What was it used for?

• It was used as a weapon and when out hunting it
  was used as a tool. Iroquois men traded furs for
  these tomahawks which were very popular.
  Decorated examples were presented at treaty
  signings as diplomatic gifts to Indian leaders,
  who carried them as a sign of their prestige

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What was it made of?

• A light weight metal head ( 1 lbs or less) on
  a wooden handle. The metals used were iron with a
  welded steel bit,brass with steel bit, and solid
  brass. More elaborate ones had fancy engravings
  or silver inlaid blades and handles.

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How did it Assist the Fur Trade?

• They finally had a object that was a tool and
  also a weapon. Since they had this, they could
  just carry this one object around instead of the
  two. It might of help the fur trade because there
  was a big demand for pelts from the Iroquis and
  the Tomahawk-Pipe was one the major things that
  was traded for these pelts.

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Is it Still Used Today?

• The tomahawk-pipe is not used today by anyone,
  but you can probably find them at a local museum
  and they are bought and sold through auctions in
  person and over the world wide web. Some
  Aboriginal people that were decendents of the
  Iroquois Natives of the fur trade have pipe
  tomahawks of their own.

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Bibliography

• Notes
• http//collections.ic.gc.ca/hbc/catex6b1.htm
• http//www.ohiokids.org/ohc/history/h_indian/artif
  acts/tomahawk.html

• Images
• http//www.nativeamericainc.com/gallery/Eagleheart
  /tomahawk20pipe.html
• http//arms2armor.com/Axes/tomhawk2.htm
• http//www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmnh/exhibits/north
  -south-east-west/iroquois/04.html