A tomahawk is a type of single-handed axe used by the many Indigenous peoples and nations of North America. It traditionally resembles a hatchet with a straight shaft. In pre-colonial times the head was made of stone, bone, or antler, and European settlers later introduced heads of iron and steel. The term came into the English language in the 17th century as an adaptation of the Powhatan (Virginian Algonquian) word.
Tomahawks were general-purpose tools used by Native Americans and later the European colonials with whom they traded, and often employed as a hand-to-hand weapon
Etymology
The name comes from Powhatan tamahaac, derived from the Proto-Algonquian root *temah- ‘to cut off by tool’. Algonquian cognates include Lenape təmahikan, Malecite-Passamaquoddy tomhikon, and Abenaki demahigan, all of which mean ‘axe’
History
The Algonquian people created the tomahawk. Before Europeans came to the continent, Native Americans would use stones, sharpened by a process of knapping and pecking, attached to wooden handles, secured with strips of rawhide. The tomahawk quickly spread from the Algonquian culture to the tribes of the South and the Great Plains.
Native Americans created a tomahawk’s poll, the side opposite the blade, which consisted of a hammer, spike or pipe. These became known as pipe tomahawks, which consisted of a bowl on the poll and a hollowed out shaft.
General Purpose Tool
Many Native Americans used tomahawks as general-purpose tools. Because they were small and light, they could be used with one hand. This made them ideal for such activities as hunting, chopping, and cutting. Both the Navajo and Cherokee peoples used them in this way. The development of metal-bladed tomahawks expanded their use even more. Most Native Americans had their own individual tomahawks, which they decorated to suit their personal taste. As Native American artwork shows, many of these were decorated with eagle feathers, which represented acts of bravery.
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wait i’ve been painting my nails black for over a year now and no one told me how fucking hard disintegration by the cure goes? holy shit this album is goated
It’s amazing and it’s still probably my number 5 of theirs. The Cure are fantastic
personal galaxy brain top 5 cure albums? (im trying to branch out beyond abrasive 2010s internet weirdo music)
Seventeen Seconds
Pornography
Boys Don’t Cry (it’s the American release of their first album and does that thing where they’d swap out some songs with singles, it fucks up a lot of albums, but I’m this case it cuts some really weak material and replaces it with all time bangers)
Faith
Disintegration
Aside from Disintegration the albums I have here are from sorta their original run so to speak. The release order would be boys don’t cry, seventeen seconds, faith and pornography as their first 4 albums, Disintegration is their 8th. It’s been a .inutr since I’ve listened to much of their other stuff aside from their new album that just came out at the start of this month and fucking rules. I’m a punk and punk descendant music encyclopedia, if you want old school goth music I’m the guy to come to. My favorite goth band is Mustaa Paraati from Finland in the early to mid 80s
TY buddy!! i listened to pornography a few days ago and really liked it, listened to faith just before your post and liked it but not as much as the other two. i’ll check the rest out shortly!!
Seventeen Seconds is my November album. I really associate the two, and not cause of anything beyond the vibes. I’m pretty sure I was listening to it a like a decade or more ago in August and was like “this album feels fucking NOVEMBER.”
Boys Don’t Cry is closer to the 77 punk side of things but in the ripping off Wire kinda style.