1840s Northern Plains/Missouri War Hawk

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Product Description for 1840s Northern Plains/Missouri War Hawk

Maker: Cactus Rose (click to see more by this maker)
Item num: 3539
*** This is handmade and one-of-a-kind ***
Item weight: 23.75 oz.
Blade: Hand forged 1050 carbon steel with an aged, rustic finish and weeping heart cut out
Handle: Hickory with brass tack decoration
Description: This style of hawk, with its large thin head and relatively small eye, was popular amongst the Indians of the Upper Missouri are of modern day North Dakota and Montana during the first half of the 1800s. The earliest version of this hawk had a very large head and short handle, making it ungainly. This CactusRose Missouri War Hawk is of the later era, resulting in an exceptionally well balanced hawk.
Gib began the head of this hawk in the traditional 19th century manner, by wrapping a billet of 1050 carbon steel around a mandrel and forge-welding the joint to form the eye. The cutting edge was then hardened 3/4" wide, with the remainder left soft and resilient for a very strong head. The head was left with a forge finish and age-etched. The head measures 6 9/16 inches long and the cutting edge is 3 11/16 inches tall.
The hickory haft measures 19 inches long. It is mounted with brass tacks and a smoke tanned buckskin grip and decorative drop. Pony beadwork, brass hawk bells, fringe, copper and brass beads, tin cone tinklers, and cornaline d'aleppo trade beads decorate the grip and drop. The entire piece was then finished with a fine patina of age for that old time look and feel.
Another one of a kind hand-crafted frontier piece by the duo of Gib Guignard and Chuck Burrows -- enhanced by the beadwork of Chuck's wife, Linda.


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