The other tomahawk is a spike poll type. I have no idea of its date of manufacture. It was given to me many years ago. According to "Fur Trade Tomahawks" https://www.furtradetomahawks.com/ a child's tomahawk/axe is distinguished by the head being less than 5 inches long from the poll to the cutting edge. Both these tomahawks below conform to that size. I am not claiming that these two tomahawks are exact copies of originals, just that they are the same size as a child's tomahawk.
Here you can see a comparison between my wife's belt axe and the smaller tomahawk/axe.
My youngest Son when only very young. You can just see the tomahawk helve sticking out by his left hand. The knife in his belt is real too.
Links to records and museum images.
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We'd be called bad parents for giving such things to kids now! Thank God I was raised when I was and not today!
Amen to that Gorges.
Keith.
Yap, agreed;-)...I was given a knife and made myself a tomahawk from rebar as a child, and no therapy in sight!;-) Boy, am I grateful for that...
Regards, Markus
Amazing! I bet it thought children more about responsability.
It all depends on the child. My three boys are very intellegent, but it did not stop them from being mischievous! Even so they were never dowright destructive and never once came to any harm in relation to using tomahawks and knives.
We used to teach young ones from about the age of 6 years in our group to throw the tomahawk, all were sensible and came to no harm.
But I used to teach martial arts many years ago, and I can remember banning one youngster from the club because he was outright mean and enjoyed hurting other kids. I would not have been handing him any sort of blade.
Keith.
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