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Weapons: Knives, Tomahawks, and War
Clubs
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Top: Neck knife and sheath. 5" long
hand forged high carbon steel blade, hickory handle, two
steel pins, 8-1/2 LOA. Sheath made from dyed brain tan
deerskin, deer rawhide lining and stiffening, and linen
thread. Dyed black and decorated with tin cones and
deer hair Bottom: Forged tomahawk, hickory
handle. Blade is 2-3/4" x 6". Eye is 1-3/4"
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Knives and pipe hawk. The neck knife is the same
as the one at left, Ax head is from the casting by RE Davis Co; finished
and hafted by me. Both knives made by me; the "scalper" has an
ochre painted octagon handle, partial tang, and iron pins.
See the paintings of
Syacust Ukah and Cunne Shotte for period images with similar
weapons.
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At left, my atassa, a Southeastern War Club
Roughed out with band saw, finished with shoe rasp and
cabinet scraper. Burnished with bone tool. Heat treated with torch.
Stained with pecan hull goo, then waxed and oiled. 32" long.
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This is intended as a piece used in displays to contrast
to the more common weapons used post-contact. The piece is based on
items appearing on Mississippian shell gorgets. In these "Hawk
Man" sometimes carries a notched war club, or atassa as it is called
in Swanton. See the "War Clubs"
page in the Documentation section or Swanton's
The Indians of the Southeastern United States for further
information There are similar notched Atassa on the roof of
Creek square ground arbors, also called "clan bed shelters" from
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