About the Artwork
Pipe Tomahawk
ca. 1825
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Native american
North american
Wrought iron, steel, wood, silver and lead inlay
Overall: 18 5/8 × 6 5/8 × 1 1/8 inches (47.3 × 16.8 × 2.9 cm)
Metalwork
Indigenous Americas
Founders Society Purchase with funds from Flint Ink Corporation
81.204
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Engraved in cartouche at top of blade: Ottoke Name has also been scratched on middle silver band in handle.
Provenance
private collection (Lexington, Kentucky, USA)
purchased by Milford G. Chandler [1889-1981]
purchased by Richard A. Pohrt [1911-2005] (Flint, Michigan, USA)
1981-present, purchased 1981 by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Penney, David W. Art of the American Indian Frontier: The Chandler-Pohrt Collection. Seattle and London: The Detroit Institute of Arts and University of Washington Press, 1992, cat. no. 149.
"Tomahawk Embellishments Old and New." MUZZLE BLASTS, National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association members magazine,June 1970, p 9, (ill).
DIA BULLETIN, vol 62, no 1, 1986, p 5 (ill).
Pohrt, R.A., "Pipe Tomahawks from Michigan and the Great Lakes Area, DIA BULLETIN, vol 62, no 1, 1986, pp 54- 60, figs 2,3.
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North American, Native American, Pipe Tomahawk, ca. 1825, wrought iron, steel, wood, silver and lead inlay. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Flint Ink Corporation, 81.204.
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