Subject: sachem war chief
Culture: Iroquois & allied Indians
Setting: French & Indian War / Pontiac's War, Great Lakes/Ohio Valley 1754-1764
Object: tomahawk
* 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
* Fort Pitt Museum
* Fort Pitt Museum
Royal Ontario Museum > Canada -- First Peoples
"Pipe-tomahawk [bottom]
Joseph Brant, Mohawk
Laiton, acier, bois, ivoire
XVIIIe siècle ..."
