Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of General Carl Christian Schurz (1829-1906, a US senator from Missouri and head of the US Department of the Interior); inherited by General Schurz's children, Carl L. Schurz (1871-1924, a New York City attorney) and Marianne Schurz (1857-1929); lent to MAI by Carl L. Schurz and Marianne Schurz in 1919 and never reclaimed.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Sioux
- Previous owner
- Marianne Schurz, Non-Indian, 1857-1929
- Possible collector
- General Carl Christian Schurz, Non-Indian, 1829-1906
- Previous owner
- General Carl Christian Schurz, Non-Indian, 1829-1906
- Carl L. Schurz, Non-Indian, 1871-1924
- Date created
- 1850-1860
- Object Name
- Tomahawk/Axe
- Media/Materials
- Metal head, steel, wood, deerhide/deerskin, glass bead/beads
- Techniques
- Carved, lazy/lane stitch beadwork, stitched, fringed
- Object Type
- Personal items
