[Rarebooks] FS: Antique Native American Tomahawks

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AMERICAN INDIAN TOMAHAWKS
by Harold L. Peterson.

Published by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye foundation, in 1971.
Revised edition.

DISCUSSION: A detailed and important study which includes a history of the
form and its types, as well as sections discussing simple hatchets,
Missouri war hatchets, spontoon tomahawks, halberd tomahawks, spiked
tomahawks, tomahawks with hammer polls, celtiform tomahawks, pipe
tomahawks, and Naval boarding axes. Includes a directory of makers and
dealers, and an appendix- "The Blacksmith Shop" by Milford G. Chandler.
The core work on this subject.

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover. 7"x10", 142 pages with line illustrations plus 2
color and 97 black & white plates.

CONDITION NOTES: Near fine. Bookplate of a noted collector on the pastedown.

PRICE: $275.00

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