Description:

This is a Presentation Pipe, Tomahawk, this kind was made up especially as a prestige gift for an Indian Chief along with the silver metal to hang around his neck at the treaty of some kind, we think in this case it was the exclusive right to trap and trade furs with the chief tribe and territory, the pipe was carried in a highly decorated pouch, smoked only at special ceremonies, so that all would know that this chief was speaking, the names are not chiefs name, KODAKICIYAPI means Friendship, WOOKIE means peace, WOPETON means trade with Indians, reference to the English-Dakota by John P. Williamson AMDD, The Tilton Fur Co. was the legal name of what was popularly called the Columbia Fur Co., most of the partners were British Subjects but Tilton was American and they operated under his name, their headquarters were at Lake Traverse in southwestern Minnesota that had a lot of trading posts on the Missouri, they started in business about 1822, then merges with the American Fur Co. in 1827, the pipe was found on the Brule River in Minnesota by a 14 year old girl

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December 5, 2020 9:30 AM EST
Findlay, OH, US

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