The lot features a circa 1890, early Indian Reservation period spontoon pipe tomahawk with a nice beaded hide drop, collected by Dr. Warren Thomson at Fort Sill, Oklahoma in the early 1900’s from a Kiowa Native American Indian family. The piece is in a pattern of pipe tomahawk typically seen during the early Western Reservation period and features a stylized spontoon shape blade with no basal processes and a double heart cutout at the center of the blade showing a mirrored design. The bottom of the axe blade is double edged with a median ridge running down the center of both sides. The tomahawk has a tall, slender pipe bowl with clean tapering design and thin beveled neck flowing into the molded unique chevrons over the tear drop shaped eyelet hole. In place of the basal processes are two small, spur-like, triangular protrusions, a unique addition. The piece has a hard wood haft adorned with old brass trade tacks, hot file brandings, and a wrap of old trade cloth with ribbons at the grip section. Attached at the end of the wrap is a 24-inch-long Indian tanned Antelope hide beaded and fringed drop, which shows a geometric pattern with all old glass trade seed beads and old hawk brass trade bells and is backed with old red stroud trade cloth. The beadwork shows a white cross motif in chalk white at the center with colors of greasy yellow, Cheyenne pink, cobalt, medium green, and red, as well as several wound glass sky padre trade beads and hawk bells. There is one single nickel concho tack on each side of the haft. The clean out hole at the top of the haft is exposed; the plug is missing. Provenance: Collected by Dr. Warren Thomson at Fort Sill, Oklahoma in the early 1900’s from the Kiowa family and later sold to Dale Harrison out of Ohio. The head measures 11 ¾ inches long by 2 ½ inches at the widest point.