Subject: sachem war chief
Culture: Iroquois & allied Indians
Setting: Great Lakes/Ohio Valley 18th - early 19thc
Object: tomahawk
Fort Pitt Museum *
* Fort Pitt Museum
Yorktown Victory Center [bottom] *
"Tomahawk, American, c. 1750, iron and wood. Tomahawks such as this were often used for military or ceremonial purposes in the Revolutionary period. The terms 'tomahawk' and 'hatchet' were employed as symbols of war in many speeches and treaties.
Little Abraham, in a speech at Albany, New York, on August 31, 1775, stated: '... You desired us to take no part, but to bury the hatchet.'"
* Fort Pitt Museum
Royal Ontario Museum > Canada -- First Peoples *
"Pipe-tomahawk Joseph Brant, Mohawk Laiton, acier, bois, ivoire XVIIIe siècle ..."
"Pipe tomahawk Joseph Brant, Mohawk Brass, steel, wood, ivory 18th century" ...
