The lot features a Southern Plains Reservation Era pipe tomahawk with carvings, inlays and a hide drop from a large Iowa collection. The piece exhibits a cast pipe axe head with diamond eye, weeping heart cutout, tall bowl and various moldings and punch dots designs. The head is paired with a wooden haft handle with diamond shape showing various solid brass circular inlays in a banded pattern. There are also various incised carved zig-zag designs which could represent various things such as lightning, bullets, rivers, snakes. The bottom shows a tanned hide drop decorated with solid brass large concho spots, wound glass pound beads in yellow and light blue and copper or brass rolled jingle dangle cones. There are also two hawk trade bells with solid brass bottoms and metal backs. The setup is an early Indian Reservation used for ceremonial or dance purposes. The head does slightly does slide down the haft when pressed which shows the old gasket underneath. When in place the head and smoking tip do pull air. Measures overall 19.25-inches long, head is 8.75-inches long by 4-inches across the blade. Drop is about 10-inches long.