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  2. Tomahawk - Wikipedia

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    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. The metal tomahawk heads were originally based on a Royal Navy boarding axe (a lightweight hand axe designed to cut through boarding nets when boarding hostile ships) and used as a ...

  3. Native American weaponry - Wikipedia

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    Weaponry for Native American groups residing in North America can be grouped into five categories: striking weapons, cutting weapons, piercing weapons, defensive weapons, and symbolic weapons. [1] The weaponry varied with proximity to European colonies, with tribes nearer those colonies likelier to have knives and tomahawks with metal components.

  4. List of Indian massacres in North America - Wikipedia

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    This was a continuation of the hostilities by Native American tribes allied with the French in the French and Indian War that had begun with the Penn's Creek massacre, above. 47 either killed or captured (Scotch and Irish settlers) in the Great Cove settlement; at least 10 more in Little Cove and the Conolloway Creeks

  5. Gunstock war club - Wikipedia

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    In Native American society, gunstock clubs are used as part of pow wow regalia or in other formal occasions. [4] The gunstock war club is the primary weapon of practitioners of Okichitaw, a martial art based on the fighting techniques of the Assiniboine and Plains Cree Indians. [6] It was recently rejuvenated by Canadian martial artist George J ...

  6. Scalping - Wikipedia

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    Scalping also occurred during the Sand Creek Massacre on November 29, 1864, during the American Indian Wars, when a 700-man force of U.S. Army volunteers destroyed the village of Cheyenne and Arapaho in southeastern Colorado Territory, killing and mutilating [56] [57] an estimated 70–163 Native American civilians.

  7. Metallurgy in pre-Columbian America - Wikipedia

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    Indigenous South Americans had full metallurgy with smelting and various metals being purposely alloyed. Metallurgy in Mesoamerica and western Mexico may have developed following contact with South America through Ecuadorian marine traders. [4] Bronze axe-money from Mexico at the Prehistory Museum of Valencia

  8. Head axe - Wikipedia

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    The head axe, also known as headhunter's axe, is a battle axe of the Cordilleran peoples of the Philippines specialized for beheading enemy combatants during headhunting raids. They are distinctively shaped, with a concave or straight thin blade and an elongated backward spike on the upper corners of the poll. Their native names and designs ...

  9. Ground stone - Wikipedia

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    An array of Neolithic artifacts, including bracelets, axe heads, chisels, and polishing tools. Neolithic stone implements are by definition ground stone and, except for specialty items, not chipped. A Neolithic ground stone. Traditional grinding stone used for making chutney, dosa batter and idli batter, in India today.

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