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TOMAHAWK (a native American word, probably from the Algonquian verb otomahuk, to knock down)

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 1063 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: THE-TOO
TOMAHAWK (a native American word, probably from the Algonquian verb otomahuk, to knock down) , the war-hatchet of the
North
  American Indians. The earliest tomahawks were of chipped
stone
 , usually sharpened to a point at each end some-thing like a pickaxe, and passed through a hole bored in a stout wooden cudgel. In the more primitive types the
stone
  head was simply tied to the handle by animal sinews, or a withe was doubled. over the head and fastened below to form a handgrip. Sometimes deer antlers were used instead of stones. After the arrival of the
white
  man the heads were usually of
iron
 . Where the stone head was sharpened only at one end the
blunt
  end was sometimes cut out into a pipe-bowl, the handle, hollowed, serving as the
stem
 . The weapon was at once symbolical of war and peace, and was ceremoniously buried at the termination of hostilities, to be as formally exhumed when the feuds revived. Hence the colloquialism " to bury the hatchet."


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