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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Had the itch rewatch Mitt Romney gangman style parody after 13 years and the dude who played Paul Ryan killed that shit
YouTube keeps recommending me that 3 hour video about why starship troopers is bad satire. So I caved. 41 minutes in and it’s well researched and has a bibliography and stuff but seems to miss something thst can be really easily read from the film; it’s an in universe propaganda film. It’s not explicitly showing the downsides of fascism cause the idea is that it’s for an already Sci fi fascist audience. The would you like to know more bits aren’t family guy style cutaways. I thought it was obvious as hell this movie wasn’t meant as a straight depiction of events, it’s a fictional propaganda piece. Unless that’s addressed than the whole premise kinds falls apart for me.
So far I’m getting Everything Must be Didactic or the Fascists Win vibes. As someone who doesn’t think we should compromise anything let alone art in the face of fascists even if you risk them totally not getting the point and liking it. They’ll do it to whatever you make anyway. The last thing you should consider when making art is what fascists will think of it, hopefully they aren’t your audience.
Go to bed cold. Wake up hot. Like clockwork. You can’t explain that
reading through my 2024 journal after having not written in it for a while (at least not counting journalposting here, huehhuehhueh). giving me some weird strong mixed emotions. the life of a sensitive boy, i guess. what can i say.
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Please rfk, americans yearn for the days when america was great! We must bring back polio
to give some credit to the “palestinians and israelis have been fighting for thousands of years argument”, 1947 might had well have been thousands of years ago in the average American’s understanding of history
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accent, frenchish: oh hoh hohhh, oh hoho hohohohhoooohhhhhhh
(modded victoria 3)
Any Factorio heads play the new expansion? I didn’t even know about this until a few days ago.
Logging onto facebook and seeing a variety of pages with WW2 pictures… of Nazis. With Nazis in the comments giving salutes
starting to wonder if the consistent writing chapter of my life is over indefinitely, or for the foreseeable future. my motivation and imagination have really felt sapped for over two years, and yet i still miss it and feel a creative need not being fed. idk, i almost spoiler tagged this behind “self pitying bullshit.” but maybe accepting that it could be behind me could take some pressure off and i’ll find my way back to it through that lack of pressure. and hey, three feature scripts that i pretty much all like and feel proud of (this varies day by day ofc) - which are vastly different from each other in many ways while still showing a distinct, recurrent authorial voice & vision - is further than many with these silly ambitions get.
also i’m full of shit. i have been writing the last couple years, i just haven’t found a project that’s spoken to me enough to complete in that time. plus i’ve been iterating my existing material. that’s way different from having no drive/imagination.
my kneejerk negative inner voice is such a narcissistic self-centered woe is me little turd part of me i swear 2 god
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.
