THIS IS A FIRST -- TOMAHAWKS * PIPE AXES * OF THE AMERICAN FRONTIER by John Baldwin. You don't have anything like it. This 'First of a series' completely covers this highly collectable exciting subject. A historically significant perspective combined with pictures from the top collections in the country, thus insuring authentic documented artifacts from our American frontier. Invaluable as a teaching reference with accurate detailed information, the text written as an exciting saga of Americana. * Hardbound, 8 1/2" X 11" gold lettered brown cover. * 128 pages of the finest printing quality. * Over 850 images of tomahawks & related weapons. * 16 full-color pages of tomahawks, beadwork & related artifacts. * 45 vintage photos of Indians with tomahawks, most never published. * Drawn blacksmith examples. * Detailed captions & informative text complement the photographs. * 7 detailed chapters, everything you wanted to know about tomahawks. * Current price guide, buying & collecting information. * How tomahawks were made. * Historical perspective of pipe axes. * Nomenclature chart. * Phase chart. * Shape in time chart. * Demographics & trade route map. * Chapter VI: Over 140 tomahawk heads shown. * Chapter VII: Over 225 tomahawks with handles. * Suggested retail $75.00 each. Library & quantity discounts available. E.A.A. Trading Company, P.O. Box 299, West Olive, MI 49460. 616-399-6035.

THIS IS A FIRST -- TOMAHAWKS * PIPE AXES * OF THE AMERICAN FRONTIER by John Baldwin. You don't have anything like it. This 'First of a series' completely covers this highly collectable exciting subject. A historically significant perspective combined with pictures from the top collections in the country, thus insuring authentic documented artifacts from our American frontier. Invaluable as a teaching reference with accurate detailed information, the text written as an exciting saga of Americana. * Hardbound, 8 1/2" X 11" gold lettered brown cover. * 128 pages of the finest printing quality. * Over 850 images of tomahawks & related weapons. * 16 full-color pages of tomahawks, beadwork & related artifacts. * 45 vintage photos of Indians with tomahawks, most never published. * Drawn blacksmith examples. * Detailed captions & informative text complement the photographs. * 7 detailed chapters, everything you wanted to know about tomahawks. * Current price guide, buying & collecting information. * How tomahawks were made. * Historical perspective of pipe axes. * Nomenclature chart. * Phase chart. * Shape in time chart. * Demographics & trade route map. * Chapter VI: Over 140 tomahawk heads shown. * Chapter VII: Over 225 tomahawks with handles. * Suggested retail $75.00 each. Library & quantity discounts available. E.A.A. Trading Company, P.O. Box 299, West Olive, MI 49460. 616-399-6035.

Largely due to the tastes of nineteenth century Western collectors and curators, weaponry abounds in ethnographic museums. However, the relative absence of Asian, African, Native American and Oceanic arms and armour from contemporary gallery displays neither reflects this fact, nor accords these important artefacts the attention they deserve. Weapons are often those objects in museums which most strongly record traumatic histories of colonial conquest around the world, showcase a society’s most complex technologies, and encode a wealth of historical information relating to violent conflict, cultural identities, and indigenous masculinities. This volume brings together an international collective of museum professionals, indigenous cultural historians, anthropologists and material culture specialists to address the historical role of weapon collections in ethnographic museums, and to reconsider the value of studying arms for the purposes of writing richer cultural histories. From Australia to the Amazon, from Uttar Pradesh to ancient Ulster, the essays in this book endeavour to return ethnographic weapons to the centre of material culture studies. In doing so, they offer a blueprint for a more sophisticated future treatment of world weaponry.

This unique value guide showcases highly personal, well-made smoking instruments. Informational sections on how pipes were made, what to look for and what to avoid when collecting pipes. Other pipe facts and finds are also included. Over 1,000 color photos.