Blackfoot or Northern Plains Ball Headed Fighting Club

 This is a museum deassession.  The tag that came with it reads: "BLACKFOOT OR NORTHERN PLAINS VERY EARLY BALL HEADED FIGHTING CLUB. CARVED FROM ONE PIECE WOOD.  FULLY NATIVE HIDE WRAPPED AND SEED BEADED HANDLE.  THE SEED BEADING DEPICTS THE FOUR DIRECTIONS.  GREAT AGE/USE PATINA.  COLLECTED RED SHIRT MONTANA  #8857".  The club is nearly 22 inches long. It has a small stress crack in the ball head. Nice, old seed beads on the haft. $2600.00

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19th Century Hand Forged Hammer Poll Tomahawk-Rifleman's Belt Axe

With its original red painted haft, this piece weighs about 2 1/4 pounds. The head is hand-forged steel. The slightly flared blade measures 7 3/4 inches long by 3 3/4 inches wide. You will note the flaws in its construction. The hafting eye is rectangular. The haft, or handle, is 21 1/2 inches long from the bottom of the eye. At the top of the haft, near the poll (where the handle enters the blade), the paint is rubbed off and the wood showing through is smooth from where the axe hung on the belt. The wood is dark next to the top and bottom of the eye hole from years of iron oxides leeching into it from the blade. There is a chip of wood missing from the bottom of the handle that has been missing for a very long time. Most hammer-polled axes such as this one show little, or no, mushrooming of the poll from actual use. It is believed that the hammer-poll was intended as a counterbalance to the blade, rather than as a pounding surface. The blade has a dark black smooth patina with normal pitting. There are some stamping marks on the blade that appear to be a "93".  $1650.00

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Hand Forged Pipe Hawk With Tiger Maple Haft.

 

This hand forged steel blade still has its original edge.  You can see where the steel was folded during forging.  The bowl on this one is nice and thin.  The handle, or haft, is of a beautiful tiger maple and has a smooth hand-rubbed finish, like the kind you find on old Kentucky rifles.  It is especially silky near the base of the haft where the gripping point is.  Just below there, and just above the draw hole, are four small tacks that have leather underneath them.  Evidently this hawk once had a leather (usually beaded) drop on it.  You will notice a sticker under the blade, this was a museum number, easily removed.  $1600.00

 

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Unusual Forged Copper Blade Pipe Tomahawk

This piece appears to date from the mid 1800's.  It weighs over 1 3/4 lbs. Overall length is about 17 1/2 inches.  From the edge of the blade to the top of the flared out bowl is 9 inches.  The hand-carved wooden haft is decorated with trade cloth and leather.  When you slide the cloth or leather down, it reveals a beautiful, rich patina on the wood. The mouth piece and stopper are bone. Blade retains its original edge.  This piece would enhance any Native American collection.  A steal at....$3800.00

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Blacksmith Made  Spike Tomahawk

Talk about a primitive tomahawk, this is it! Has a very unique and old, old wood haft that is spotted with bore holes.  The blade is 10  inches from the blade edge to the tip of the spike.  It is about 18 1/2 inches in overall length.  It has designs drawn on it in ink and an odd piece of metal attached to the side.  $1500.00

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1830's style Sioux War Shirt  SOLD

   New! Native American made custom deerskin leather                

Genuine Native American made custom deer skin war shirt style jacket with deer antler buttons.  Hand cut and sewn, size large.  $899

Frog Effigy pot.  4 3/4 inches wide by 5 inches tall.  Click photo for more detailed views. SOLD	Double-Face Coon Effigy Pot.  7 inches tall by 9 inches wide.  Click photo for more detailed views.  SOLD
Steatite Human Effigy Pipe.  4 inches tall by 2 1/2 inches wide by 3 1/4 inches deep.  Click photo for more detailed views.  SOLD	Sandstone Human Effigy Pipe.  3 1/2 inches tall by 2 inches wide by 2 inches deep. Click photo for more detailed views. SOLD
Sandstone Deer Head Effigy Pipe.  2 1/4 inches tall by 2 inches wide by 4 inches deep.  Click photo for more detailed views.  SOLD	Huge flint blade, the largest I have ever seen.  Very thin, nice edge work, 14 1/2 inches long by 5 7/16 inches wide. Click photo for more detailed views.  SOLD
War club: 19 1/2 inches long by 4 5/8 inches at widest. Click photo for more detailed views.  $3200.00	Native American silver arm band made from antique silver napkin rings.  Click photo for more detailed views.
Ceremonial horse pipe, made of wood inlaid with lead in the style of the Sioux. Click photo for more detailed views.	19th century Native American arm bands made of trade silver.  Stamped "DS"...there was a silversmith named David Stroughton from Kingston, Ontario who operated in the early 1800's.  Click photo for more detailed views.
Genuine Native American made custom deer skin war shirt style jacket with deer antler buttons.  Hand cut and sewn, size large.  $950