These beautiful buckskin-wrapped brass hatchets are trimmed by hand with seed beads, horsehair, and feathers. The Large and Medium are also working peace pipes, the Small is only a hatchet. The heart cutout, or weeping heart, was a trade item. This tomahawk would have been present during talks of war. If the talks went well the pipe of the tomahawk would be smoked and passed as a symbol of peace then taken out and buried--the weapon would not be used. (This is where we got the phrase "Bury the hatchet.)
