Tomahawk
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A tomahawk is a type of single-handed axe used by the many Indigenous peoples and nations of North America. It traditionally resembles a hatchet with a straight shaft.
Pipe tomahawk
Modern commercial tomahawk
Tomahawk, Oglala, Lakota, Sioux (Native American), late 19th-early 20th century, Brooklyn Museum
Nez Perce tomahawk
Francisca
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The francisca was a throwing axe used as a weapon during the Early Middle Ages by the Franks, among whom it was a characteristic national weapon at the time of the Merovingians. It is known to have be
Tomahawk
…met: one end was the pipe of peace, the other an axe of war. In colonial French territory, a different tomahawk design, closer to the ancient European francisca, was in use by French settlers and local peoples. In the late 18th century, the British Army issued tomahawks to their colonial regulars during the…
Francisca with shaft
Francisca on display in Romano-Germanic Museum in Cologne, Germany
Blade of a Francisca from the Alamannic graveyard of Weingarten (6th century)