The Probert Encyclopaedia of Warfare

TOMAHAWK

The tomahawk is a type of hatchet and hammer (the word tomahawk is Cree for hammer) used by North American Indians of the Algonquian tribes in war and in hunting. They were used not just in hand-to-hand combat, but were also thrown some distance so as to strike with the sharp edge of the blade. Original Indian tomahawks had a stone or horn blade fitted into a holed club and resembled European stone-age implements, but steel bladed tomahawks were supplied by the government and traders.
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