The lot features a terrific and authentic circa 1870 pipe tomahawk with beaded drop from the Southern Cheyenne from an ex-Museum East Coast collection. This piece was named the “Blonde Beauty” by the Museum collection from the East Coast where it was on display and is truly an attractive artful example. The piece exhibits a forged iron pipe tomahawk head with a weeping heart punch out at the center as well as a small rear-facing spur, filed molded chevrons, filed and decorated moldings and a tall vase like pipe bowl. The head is secured to the haft with an old Indian hide leather gasket and old brass trade tacks at the diamond shaped eyelet eye hole. The haft handle is a lighter or “blonde” color of solid hardwood maple with old rasp file branding adornments and old brass tacking. There is a matching “blonde” or lightly beaded Indian brain tanned buffalo bison hide drop smeared with old yellow ocher mineral pigment paint. The drop shows all 1800’s period old glass trade seed beads in a geometric pattern with colors of red white heart, greasy pea green, greasy light blue, cobalt, greasy yellow, and chalk white with long buffalo hide fringes at the bottom. This is truly a beautiful pipe tomahawk from a noted Museum collection and a documented pattern of Cheyenne tomahawk circa 1870-1880; see the John Baldwin Indian War Clubs of the American Frontier book page71 and 81 which shows a nearly identical Western pattern head with diamond eye and weeping heart punch cut out and vase like bowl with light blonde haft. Provenance: From an ex-Museum collection from the East Coast where the item was proudly on display and named the “Blonde Beauty” being a collection highlight. This is only of the more attractive Indian Wars era and is truly an eye-catching example of American Indian Art. For reference of Cheyenne or Northern Plains circa 1870-1880 tomahawks see the following examples: Northern Plains 1870 cutout tomahawk sold by High Noon in 2013 for $36,300, Blackfeet Tomahawk with weeping heart cutout sold by High Noon in 2011 for $39,600, the Northern Arapaho weeping heart cutout tomahawk sold by Hindman Freemans Cowan’s in 2025 for $21,280 and the Southern Plains cutout tomahawk 1870 sold by Cowan’s in 2013 for $43,050. The head measures 9.75-inches in length and the tomahawk itself is 23-inches long with an additional 27-inches long drop.