The lot features a Plains pipe tomahawk from the 19th-century with a wonderfully beaded Buffalo Indian hide drop, attributed to the Crow of Colorado. The head exhibits a hand forged iron head with the pipe bowl being forged from a rifle barrel, the rifling being still intact and visible in the pipe bowl. The blade has a classic western blade with a smithing fold visible on one side, a small rear facing spur and an oval eyehole. The head is paired with a hardwood haft which is elaborately adorned with brass trade tacks. The bottom gripping area is wrapped in Buffalo / Bison Indian tanned hide which is secured with tacking an shows frilly Indian hide fringes with yellow mineral pigment coloring, the grip wrap runs into the tomahawk drop which is also Buffalo Indian tanned hide in a classic triangle shaped drop pattern with wonderful Northern Plains to Plateau geometric pattern of glass trade seed beads showing colors of greasy yellow, semi-transparent red, light blue, cobalt, chalk white and Cheyenne pink. The fringes are braided with brass Indian hide with round trade beads, which has been documented on other Plateau Nez Perce to Crow examples. Provenance: From a large Kansas City, Missouri private ex-collection. The head appears to be an early example with the drop being later added, but still of an older and beautiful Indian manufacture. Total length of tomahawk is 17.5-inches long and the drop hangs down 25-inches, the head is 9.5-inches long.