The lot features a circa 1870 Cheyenne pipe tomahawk with beaded buffalo hide gripping wrap and quilled bear claw drop from the ex-East Coast Museum collection, Jim Bastian collection and Jim Painter collection. The piece exhibits a hand-forged iron head with classic Western Plains wide head and tall vase like bowl showing a small rear facing spur, a pattern documented amongst the Western Plains by authors such as Harold Peterson and John Baldwin. The head shows a round / tear drop eye hole secured to a hardwood haft with nice, deep shiny patina that is artfully adorned with old hot file branding and old brass metal trade tacks in a banded and cross designs. The gripping area shows a wrapping of Indian tanned buffalo bison hide secured with hide lacing and hide glue showing two drops with hide lacing showing wraps of porcupine quill quillwork and two large Black Bear claws. The gripping area buffalo hide wrap has a red ocher mineral pigment coloring, wrap of Indian hide with frilly fringes and section of old glass trade pony beads in cobalt and chalk white. The entire piece has a nice honest patina, some stiffened hide, little bead loss and the original bear claw quilled drop. Provenance: From an ex-East Coast Museum collection, ex-Jim Bastian collection and ex-Jim Painter collection. The head measures 10.25-inches long by 3.75-inches wide across the blade.