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This is a North Amercian pipe tomahawk of the late 19th century. An ingenious combination of smoking pipe and weapon, it was used in trade and diplomatic agreements between the white settlers and the Native tribes.
In this example, the iron blade is fashioned into a bull’s head with horns and two eyeholes. It is of the old-fashioned spontoon or ‘French’ style, either after its resemblance to the polearms of 17th century French colonists - which were still carried by military officers during the American Civil War - or the curling horns, which evoke the fleur-de-lis. The blade is hafted onto a hollowed, wooden handle and a tobacco bowl was attached to the poll (the back section) of the blade. The handle is made of ash, a common choice as it is strong, elastic and has soft heartwood that is easily bored out with a hot iron.

The true metal tomahawk acquired its name from the Renape Indians and was first recorded as a term by Captain Smith (of Pocahontas fame) as tamahagan - an axe or implement used for cutting. It was the European realisation of the saleability of axe heads which drove them to flood North America with trade axe blades, and their lack of understanding of Native American cultural and linguistic variation which led them to apply the term tomahawk wherever that trade went on. The Native Americans themselves took up the term, in the rational understanding that tomahawk was the word the Europeans themselves used.

The pipe tomahawk (or ‘smoak tomahawk’, as it was called by the English colonials) was recorded as early as 1700. It was a major commodity used in the fur trade that dominated north-eastern North America between 1650 and 1870. It is often asserted that pipe tomahawk blades were mass produced in Europe (generally, England), for supply to the North American fur market but few bear standard manufacturer’s trademark stamps and it is more likely that the most blades were home-wrought by American settlers. This blade is unusual, therefore, in bearing a name, ‘O.B. Sprague’. O.B. Sprague was recorded as working as a blacksmith in the small logging town of Spruce in West Virginia in 1905. This was the year the town’s mill was built on the Cass railroad. Spruce no longer exists and whether this is the same O. B. Sprague, or whether he made this tomahawk blade before of after his time in West Virginia, may never be known. What can be ascertained is that there was not much need for a tomahawk in a logging town and if it was wrought there, it may represent an example of tourist art, or a dress/ceremonial tomahawk made for trade to Indians.
The pipe tomahawk was a regular feature of peaceful dealings between white Americans and Native Americans in the central-northern and eastern regions during the 17th to 19th centuries. Worn by tribal chiefs as items of prestige and used in diplomatic councils, their dual nature carried a powerful message: unless the pipe was smoked to seal the peace, war could break out.

作者: 禽流感 时间: 2010-6-4 15:51
斧头确实有较大杀伤力

作者: 佛光 时间: 2010-6-4 23:41
学习啦
还真是好贴啊
顶

作者: lanyunjian 时间: 2010-6-5 10:29
感谢楼主，学习了

作者: SIMEN 时间: 2010-6-5 12:01
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作者: 切断 时间: 2010-6-5 12:41
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8哥的烙铁啊

作者: 柳刀6150 时间: 2010-6-22 15:04
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长见识.好贴精品.

作者: 可心刀迷 时间: 2011-1-13 18:42
我也做了几把有一把是用切割公路边的锯片做的挺漂亮

作者: daoyouren 时间: 2011-1-13 19:33
超级喜欢3楼的斧头。。。

作者: 16546992 时间: 2011-1-13 20:49
刀刀已经不和谐了,斧子更不和谐了~

作者: TGW 时间: 2011-4-9 01:38
LS恰好错了，刀被河蟹没啥说的，斧子在TB上可遍地是，按GAB的说法，那玩儿算“工具”，不是管制物

另关于所谓“维京斧”，地域不同形制也不一样，挪威人用的跟丹麦人用的在一定时期内就不一样

挖坟抱歉，但说实话，国内对欧洲剑类的研究也只能说才刚有些人关注，就更甭提劈砍类的东西了，纯一知半解

作者: yp19881 时间: 2011-4-9 01:49
好多斧头啊

作者: sanzuwu811216 时间: 2011-4-9 07:14
文章是斑竹写的，怪不得这么长，有心人啊

作者: zago7844 时间: 2011-4-9 11:12
膜拜好文，甚是崇拜版主的积分

作者: 107D 时间: 2011-4-9 15:50
本帖最后由 107D 于 2011-4-9 15:56 编辑

还是sog或者tops的战术斧看得顺眼些

作者: hikarufans 时间: 2011-4-9 16:06
当初看梅尔吉普森的《爱国者》的时候就喜欢上tomahawk了

作者: 溺水的鱼 时间: 2011-4-9 18:39
又长知识了！

作者: 1396 时间: 2011-4-9 22:47
东西是好买不到城里最多劳防商店买把安全斧
捅人十刀不及砍人一斧
对付仇家必备快意恩仇首选

作者: 重瞳 时间: 2011-10-5 11:58

木头干缩是狂狗的问题，木头未干就拿来做柄要打屁股。
看到ZANW兄台做的柄，用的是一种荆棘，倒是很想知道效果。小时候家里用镰刀的柄就是用一种灌木荆棘做的，韧性非常之好。
冷钢的柄效果还不错，只飞断一根，可 ...
陈近南发表于 2005-5-24 18:05

白蜡应该是乔木而非灌木，所以应该不是白蜡吧。
据说古时兵器的柄多为白蜡制，韧性好。

作者: majw0451 时间: 2011-10-26 12:10
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上山还是这玩意实用

作者: concrate 时间: 2012-11-29 08:50
很详实

作者: wangyifanko 时间: 2012-11-29 10:35
好贴。受教

作者: 晕晕的小刀 时间: 2012-12-16 23:40
好专业的贴啊

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