Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected from Knows His Coups (Apsáalooke) by anthropologist William (Willem) Wildschut (1883-1955) in 1924 during fieldwork sponsored by MAI.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
- Previous owner
- Knows his Coups (He Knows his Coups), Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
- Collector
- William Wildschut (Willem Wildschut), Non-Indian, 1883-1955
- Date created
- 1860-1890
- Object Name
- Tomahawk/Axe
- Media/Materials
- Iron/steel head, wood, brass tacks/bosses, steel, fur, hide, cotton cloth, deerhide/deerskin
- Techniques
- Carved
- Object Type
- Personal items
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