This is a wonderful spontoon pipe tomahawk with beautiful engraving and silver pewter inlaid haft from the Native Americans Indians dating to Pre-1850. The head is forged iron showing a spontoon blade which shows a median ridge down the center of both sides with a double edge blade in the traditional spontoon diamond shape and is slightly rear facing. The blade shows two basal processes being finely crafted and turned upward with one missing the top curl, both are completely engraved on the outside edge. Above the basal processes is a forge molded slight chevron which flows into the forge molded tiered steps, rounded outside eyelet with tear drop eye. The top of the eye shows a forge molded chevron with filed single line on each side with an extremely artful well crafted bowl being long and tall beveled starting with a beveled thin neck with double molded ridge with vase like tapering bowl ending in an artfully finished forge molded ridge with rope engraving. The head is secured to the wood haft with solid brass early square shank trade tacks at the eyelet end with clean out plug hole present, but not plug. The haft is of presentation very fine finish showing a hexagon cut wood with high quality pewter or silver inlaid geometric triangular and rectangular patterns in a band just below the head further adorned by the finest hot file burned finished haft ever brought onto the public market. The hot file branding shows heavy burned rectangular sections with worn or sanded sharp ridges along the hexagon finish and non-burned lines in between each burned section. Just below the gripping area is a pierced hole holding an Indian tanned hide five fringe drop. The smoking tip end shows a tapering large hexagon silver or high-quality pewter inlay with triangular inlaid front, again possibly the finest inlaid smoking tip we have ever offered. The drop consist of Indian tanned hide fringe with a single solid brass early trade hawk bell with porcupine quill wrapped finish with bottom loops of harness saddle leather also being quill wrapped and holding four drops of yellow and orange dyed human hair and three Buffalo dew claws. The quillwork shows natural dues of orange, blue, red and yellow. This is truly an excellent presentation pipe with late 18th Century to early 19th Century Pre-1850 age. The piece is similar to several pieces documented in the Harold L. Peterson 1965 book “American Indian Tomahawk” on page 132 and 133 figure 264 and 266; first dating to 1800-1810 to the Seneca Indians and the second to 1825-1850 and the Iroquois Indians. Provenance: From a historic Eastern Montana American Indian Collection where the piece was found to be an authentic original, one of the finest collections of American Indian weaponry and antiquities in Montana. The piece measure 21.5” L with a head that is 8.25” L by 2.25” W blade by 1.25” thick. The drop section is approximately 9” L.