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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;James Conrad, post: 2457795, member: 5066&quot;]Hmmmmm, not sure on spelling but, is this a &quot;pipe&quot; tomahawk?</p><p>Looks like it to me with [USER=602]@Aquitaine[/USER] photo enlargement.</p><p>&quot; Pipe tomahawks are artifacts unique to North America: created by Europeans as trade objects but often exchanged as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_gift" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_gift" rel="nofollow">diplomatic gifts</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomahawk#cite_note-PH-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomahawk#cite_note-PH-1" rel="nofollow">[1]</a> They were symbols of the choice Europeans and Native Americans faced whenever they met: one end was the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calumet_(pipe)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calumet_(pipe)" rel="nofollow">pipe of peace</a>, the other an ax of war.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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