Tomahawk: alternatives and connections

One of a widely spread family of Indians, including many distinct tribes, which formerly occupied most of the northern and eastern par…

Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians.

A Roman copper coin, originally of a pound weight (12 oz.); but reduced, after the first Punic war, to two ounces; in the second Punic…

A species of divination, by means of an ax or hatchet.

Certain deities originally worshiped with mystical rites by the Pelasgians in Lemnos and Samothrace and afterwards throughout Greece;…

The official staff or wand of Hermes or Mercury, the messenger of the gods. It was originally said to be a herald's staff of olive woo…

A kind of pipe, used by the North American Indians for smoking tobacco. The bowl is usually made of soft red stone, and the tube is a…

An Appalachian tribe of Indians which originally inhabited the regions near the Catawba river and the head waters of the Santee.

One of a tribe of North American Indians now living in the state of Washington, noted for the custom of flattening their skulls. Chino…

A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron.

A black resinoid extract prepared by the South American Indians from the bark of several species of Strychnos (S. toxifera, etc.). It…

A rude ancient ax or hatchet, seen in museums.

Shaped like the head of an ax or hatchet, as some leaves, and also certain organs of some shellfish.

Pertaining to, or derived from, iron; -- especially used of compounds of iron in which the iron has its lower valence; as, ferrous sul…

The handle of an ax, hatchet, or adze.

An important ore of iron, the sesquioxide, so called because of the red color of the powder. It occurs in splendent rhombohedral cryst…

The most common and most useful metallic element, being of almost universal occurrence, usually in the form of an oxide (as hematite,…

Relics of neolithic man found on the coast of Denmark, consisting of shell mounds, some of which are ten feet high, one thousand feet…