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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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[-] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

the wok is the greatest of the pots and pans. all other cookware must bow down before it

Death to America

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

I played stardew valley for 2 hours and only started doing work at 11. AMA.

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The new liberal talking point I'm seeing on stormfront is that the media was in the tank for Trump jokerfied

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

Honestly it’s pretty impressive how Mike Tyson looked that good for being 58. Unless he actually looked bad idk I don’t watch boxing really

[-] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

Showing up at the tattoo parlor and asking for a single letter tattooed on one of my knuckles, with some of my other knuckles bandaged for what I swear is a completely unrelated reason

[-] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

Everyone please stop buying Elon's products or using X.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

Adam Friedland is going to be debating Destiny

that might be funny

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

mr trump PLEASE appoint me as secretary of labor, interior, or transportation. The people yearn for my incompetence mr trump

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

Kazakh nuclear inspector interviews after several visits to chetnobyl(including one where he stands next to the elephant foot)

In 2021, a Russian reporter spoke to the man(Artur Korneyev). He has been asked why he isn't dead yet after all that radiation and he just said;

“Soviet radiation, is the best radiation in the world.”.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

Time for another tablet weaving post This one is a 3/1 twill, like my Amleth belt, but the twilling on that one is harder to see so I wanted to make one that specifically displays this form of weave more. You can see the offset lines that make stark diagonals a lot better on this one.

The back is mirrored of course. I kinda wish I had swapped the black and white borders so that it would look like this on the front side, with the white triangle ending in the white border, makes it look more uniform and a bit nicer imo, but its fine.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

Go to bed cold. Wake up hot. Like clockwork. You can't explain that

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I got this error message @[email protected] explain yourself only-throw

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TIL my other workplace crush is seven years older than me. I don't mind but I'm probably much too babby for her :(

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I’m gonna try and cut my hair. It’s probably gonna suck, but I can always buzz cut it if it goes really bad lmao

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

"cultural impact" fans when all the 70% of movies they watch now have MCU humor (cultural impact)

[-] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

King of the Hill episode where the Rainy Street Four build a podracer after Sebulba moves into the neighborhood. Captain Falcon guest stars.

Edit: say Sebulba out loud in your best Hank voice! "That got-dang Seb-BULBA fella that moved in next to Bill's" it's fantastic.

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If Amerikkka the only place in the world that you could be together for decades and come a presidential election your husband votes for the guy trying to take away your rights without you both having talked about it before the election, the true nation of grillman

inspired by this article

https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/relationships/my-husband-and-his-family-voted-for-trump-so-im-canceling-thanksgiving-and-christmas/ar-AA1tWEfv

[-] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

The HOI4 team can't help but make the worst GUIs of all time. The new experimental research stuff is sooooo poorly designed.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

There’s this set of tedious tasks our group is getting asked to do that shouldn’t come to us. Complained to my manager and apparently he assigned another person in our group. Except this is also a very junior member so I have to teach him SQL and review his work after. So our group is still doing the tedious tasks and also my workload for it increased lea-finger-guns

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Please rfk, americans yearn for the days when america was great! We must bring back polio

[-] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

“Tomahawk” more like tomahawk tuah. (I can’t stop thinking this whenever I see the title)

[-] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

the first step in buying an apple vision pro is measuring your head measurehead

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Kinda stunning how many people have moved over to Bluesky now. Something like 75% of the active accounts I follow on Twitter have a Bluesky page.

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More perfect union needs to rip the bandaid off at some point and start calling it “capitalist greed” instead of “corporate greed”

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There was a malady affecting the machine spirits at work

Either the cogitator or the printing machine were in distress

We managed to determine that the machine spirit of the printing machine needed rest

We pressed the rune while making the sign of the cog and invoking the litany of ignition

The spirit was appeased and resumed its normal function

Glory to the Omnissiah!
[-] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Genuinely stoked to go to Vietnam in a few days, any comrades in the area know of any mutual aid I could get involved in? Gonna be in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi for a few weeks

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Feel like there’s more posts about the onion buying infowars than there were posts about the election lol

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Lmao coworker pitching we get a cluster of servers with over a TB of RAM in order to like digitize forms better (literally just OCR). I wish this was a bit.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

This bureacrat bit is gonna bring the site to its golden age.

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