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    Strange Spike Tomahawk???

    I'm afraid I'm not very politically correct. I just say it the way it is. By the way, didn't you just insult me too? :thumbsup: Iyiyi, what a group.
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    Strange Spike Tomahawk???

    "I'm not questioning your expertise in this area. Just seems odd for a weapon. If I were making a weapon and anticipating having to stab someone with it, I wouldn't put a dull chisel point on it?? Of course, I'm from the old school of "if you can't explain it, you don't understand it" Hehe...
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    Strange Spike Tomahawk???

    RE:"True enough. For all we know that hatchet head is from a homemade agricultural tool used to harvest hops off a vine. No way to know unless it was found "in context" with other items of known use." Well I would not say there is no way to know what it was used for. If that were true no one...
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    Strange Spike Tomahawk???

    Like the Godfather...keep your friends close but your enemies closer! That certainly is a possiblity. Many times too they would take enemies prisoner to replace people in their own tribe that died--kind of filling the coffers of their dwindling numbers so to speak. Trouble is in all the...
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    Strange Spike Tomahawk???

    Many of the spike tomahawk spikes were flat tipped like that. That was just personal preference. Some were pointed, some were blunt. Trust me I've been doing this awhile. Its not a shingle axe. I've also collected antique tools for about 25 years.
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    Spiked Tomahawk

    There is a book called "Firearms, Traps & Tools of the Mountain Men" by Carl P. Russell that you might want to get. In the meantime there is my website at http://furtradetomahawks.tripod.com where you can learn more although it is geared more toward collectors of the originals. White men such...
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    Strange Spike Tomahawk???

    Hi, I should say first I am new to this forum, am a professional authenticator of tomahawks, writing a book on the subject & have my own forum at http://indiantradecollectors.freeforums.org that discusses mostly axes but also other trade items & we are discussing it there if anyone cares to...
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