Green Bay fur trader Augustin Grignon with a pipe tomahawk by Joseph Jourdain, n.d.
Courtesy Wisconsin Historical Society WHi-4170

“as for Pipe Tomyhawks I could not get Jourdain all winter to make them as he said he could not procure fine Files to polish them with So you must not take it as a neglect of mine not sending you them”
—Excerpt, letter from John Lawe, Green Bay, to Jacques Porlier, Portage, April 25, 1824. “The fur-trade in Wisconsin, 1812–25,” Wisconsin Historical Collections 20 (1911).