Circus, Sideshow & Oddities

Native American Tomahawk or War Stone Axe. Likely 19th Century. A fine wooden handled hafted axe, with a heavy black stone embedded and attached to the wood shaft, secured with leather and resin. With old label incorrectly identifying it and reading “prehistoric stone age battle axe. Primitive man’s first weapon…Australian Aborigines.” Possibly Algonquin, Eastern Woodland or Northern Plains. Length 17”.