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This Frontier Pipe Hawk is a collaboration of the talents of -
Handforged 5160 blade by Mark Williams of Williams Forge
Assembly and decoration by Chuck & Linda Burrow of Wild Rose Trading Co.
The idea behind the style of this hawk......
An Eastern Pipe Hawk that traveled West.
This pipe hawk with it's curly maple handle and brass collar/cap is the style of a late eighteenth century eastern Longhunter. The maple was "stained" in the traditional manner with Aqua Fortis and finished with an oil varnish used by the gunmakers of the period. Upon reaching his elder years the Longhunter passed it on to his off spring who traveled west up the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains to become a Mountain Man. Over the years the hawk was decorated in the style of the Northern Plains Indians with a buffalo rawhide hand grip sewn on with elk sinew that has beaded end wraps. The fully decked out drop is made of smoke tan buckskin and is decorated with early period pony beads in both a geometric and floral style. Additional decoration includes bone beads, cornaline d'aleppo trade beads, copper beads, fringe, hawk bells, and tin cone tinklers. Drops such as this were frequently used on fighting hawks of the West and the added weight of the drop actually brings the whole thing into a perfect neutral balance.
Handforged 5160 blade by Mark Williams of Williams Forge
Assembly and decoration by Chuck & Linda Burrow of Wild Rose Trading Co.
The idea behind the style of this hawk......
An Eastern Pipe Hawk that traveled West.
This pipe hawk with it's curly maple handle and brass collar/cap is the style of a late eighteenth century eastern Longhunter. The maple was "stained" in the traditional manner with Aqua Fortis and finished with an oil varnish used by the gunmakers of the period. Upon reaching his elder years the Longhunter passed it on to his off spring who traveled west up the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains to become a Mountain Man. Over the years the hawk was decorated in the style of the Northern Plains Indians with a buffalo rawhide hand grip sewn on with elk sinew that has beaded end wraps. The fully decked out drop is made of smoke tan buckskin and is decorated with early period pony beads in both a geometric and floral style. Additional decoration includes bone beads, cornaline d'aleppo trade beads, copper beads, fringe, hawk bells, and tin cone tinklers. Drops such as this were frequently used on fighting hawks of the West and the added weight of the drop actually brings the whole thing into a perfect neutral balance.