This is a terrific circa 1850-1860 Missouri War Axe Tomahawk from the Comanche of Northern Texas, collected from the Indian family in 1922 from Fort Richardson from a Southwestern family private collection. The head is made from hand-forged sheet iron and shows a small rear-facing spur and plain blade with no cut outs or piercings, typical of Comanche examples. There is a small punch dot decoration on both sides of the blade an is paired with a hardwood haft handle with old faint hot branding iron design that is further adorned with brass metal trade tack bands as well as an old buckskin hide gasket that was wetted and hardened, securing the head to the haft. It has a wrap of beadwork affixed to the middle of the haft with old hide glue. The gripping section of the haft has a warp of old trade clothe and there is a long, frilly Indian tanned hide fringe warp attached to the bottom end with brass trade tacks. It has traces of old yellow ocher / ochre mineral pigment paint remnants rubbed on. The Comanche tribe in Texas were the Southern-most range of the Missouri War Axe usage and examples attributed to the Comanche are rare with very few known to exist. Provenance: Collected from outside Fort Richardson in 1922 from a private family collection in the Southwest. Head measures 9.25-inches by 5.5-inches. Total tomahawk length is 22-inches and the drop is 13-inches long.