pipe tomahawk

pipe tomahawk

pipe tomahawk

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Introduction

Pipe tomahawk, with a silver-inlaid wooden stem, and iron head that combines a pipe bowl and hatchet.

Date Made or Date Range: Mid 18 Co to Early 19 C
Materials

Wood, metal, copper inlays, silver

Other Notes

"Tomahauck à pipe et en fer. Ces tomahaucks étaient donnés en présents aux chefs de sauvages, après que la France se fut emparé du Canada" --Cabinet de curiosités et d'objects d'art de la bibliothèque publique de la Ville de Versailles, no.23 (Versailles: Impr. d'E. Aubert, 1869), in Feest 2007.

Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

Based on materials and design, Autumn Epple theorizes the object dates between 1750 and 1820.

Current Location: Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, Paris, France
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: 71.1934.33.52 D
Collection Narratives and Histories

Déposant : Bibliothèque municipale de Versailles; Précédente collection : Musée de l'Homme (Amérique), inventaire: 34.33.52.

Exhibition History

Premières Nations, Collections Royales, at the Musée du quai Branly, February 13 - May 13, 2007.

Publication History

Christian Feest, Premières Nations, Collections Royales: Les Indiens des forêts et des prairies d'Amérique du Nord (Paris: musée du quai Branly, 2007).

Sources to Learn More

Anne Vitart, in Daniel Lévine (ed.), "Amérique continent imprévu: La recontre de deux mondes," (Paris: Bordas, 1992), 122.

GKS Reference Number: 26591
How to Cite this Item

Unknown artist, pipe tomahawk. Currently in the Musée du quai Branly, 71.1934.33.52 D. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip; GRASAC item id 26591.

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