Offered for public sale is this excellent circa 1880-1890 spontoon Plains Native American Indian pipe tomahawk attributed to the Northern Cheyenne Indians of Wyoming. The piece is from the previous noted collection of Ted and Lilly Jarvis and features a hand forged iron kite-shaped Revolutionary war style spontoon head that measures overall 10 ½ inches in length. The piece shows no curled basal processes, a truly rare and unusual fact. The blade has a slightly raised forged median ridge running down the center of each side, which is a well-documented early feature on authentic spontoon tomahawks and presentation dag knives. The war club also features a taller, thin pipe bowl which indicates a late 19th Century design and has a nice filled ring around the top edge and bottom rim. The base of the pipe bowl at the top of the eyelet shows a fine bold hand filed chevron “V” with moldings on both sides. The haft, which is a solid wood construction, shows hot file brandings and is adorned with brass trade tacks along with a wonderful Cheyenne beaded and fringed Buffalo hide drop tied onto the end. The brass trade tacks appear to all be period correct solid brass square shank in varying degrees of mellow tarnish patina. The beaded drop, which is attached at the pierced hole at the end of the handle, shows an Indian tanned Great American Bison Buffalo construction with a fine geometric traditional pattern in all glass trade seed beads of the period in colors such as chalk white, sky padre blue, greasy yellow, semi-transparent translucent red, semi-transparent translucent green and black. Truly a wonderful late 19th Century, late Indian wars period pipe tomahawk with transitional bowl and beautiful wear from good age and proper signs of use. Provenance: From the renowned collection of Ted and Lilly Jarvis, the same collection that offered the Spontoon War Tomahawk in the Sotheby’s Arts of the American West May 22, 2013 New York sale which sold for $22,500. Measures overall 24 ½ inches in length with a 10 ½ inch long head. For a complete representation of condition and for additional images please call 800-686-4216. It is the buyer’s responsibility to view each image and preview the item to determine condition.