Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; said to have been acquired from the site of the New Ulm Massacre in 1862; acquired by William M. Fitzhugh (1853-1929, a San Francisco collector) at an unknown date; purchased by MAI from the estate of William M. Fitzhugh in 1936.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Non-Indian; said to have been used by the Dakota (Eastern Sioux)
- Previous owner
- William M. Fitzhugh (William MacPherson Fitzhugh), Non-Indian, 1853-1929
- Seller
- Estate of William M. Fitzhugh
- Date created
- 1850-1860
- Object Name
- Pipe tomahawk (Image withheld)
- Media/Materials
- Iron/steel head, wood
- Techniques
- Carved
- Object Type
- Personal items
