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THBWyandot Pipe Tomahawk Collected by Emil Schlup (1854-1935) from the Battle of Sandusky
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small tapering wooden handle coated with red pigment and embellished with lead inlay at end; blade with classic form and small cylindrical bowl; teardrop-shaped eye; steel plug, width of blade 2 in. x overall length 11.5 in.
early 19th century
Emil Schlup (1854-1935) was a farmer by occupation, but his passion was for history. In an article by historian Parker Brown, Brown notes: “historians can produce the fruit of their genius only with the aid of a host of unseen, unsung workers. These “helpers of historians” … like Emil Schlup – ‘procure the raw materials and do the preliminary rough work on them… so they may be used” (Brown 1988: 112-113). This was the legacy Schlup left. As a first generation Ohioan of Wyandot County, he was an author of local history, published in the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, and a guide of the area to visiting historians. Because of his family’s homestead location (built around 1845 and located just south of the Colonel Crawford Burn Site Monument), Schlup’s interest focused on the capture and burning of Colonel Crawford after the 1782 Battle of Sandusky.
In March 1782, Pennsylvania militia tortured and massacred the Lanape Moravian Missionary Village at Gnadenhutten. The village was situated in an unfortunate location between American colonists and the British and their Native allies. In addition, the group was wrongly blamed for the capture and deaths of several Pennsylvanians, which sparked the conflict. In May of 1782, Colonel William Crawford along with Captain David Williamson, who lead the attack on the Lanape village, assembled Pennsylvania and Virginia militia and headed north, with the intention to destroy the Wyandot, Munsee, and Delaware living along the Sandusky River. These groups aided by the British, defeated Crawford and Williamson in the two- day Battle of Sandusky. Crawford was captured, tortured, and burned to death by the Wyandot.
As Schlup explored the battlefield and surrounding areas, he found artifacts which helped him assemble specific details of the story. This tomahawk was one of these items found along the Detroit trail (Brown 1988:110). In correspondence found between Schlup and historian and author William Connelley, Schlup describes the Indian trail to Detroit as still there well defined, hacked and barked trees bullet marks in old decayed trees, etc, showed plainly that it had been an indian haunt [sic.](Brown 1985:60).
References and Emil Shlup Publications:
Brown, Parker. “Emil Schlup, The Historian’s Helper.” Northwest Ohio Quarterly 60.3 (1988): 105-114.
“The Battle of Sandusky: June 4-6, 1782.” Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine (June 1982): 115-151.
“The Search for the Colonel William Crawford Burn Site: An Investigative Report.” Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine (January 1985): 43-66.
Schlup, Emil. “Tarhe – The Crane.” Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society XIV (1905): 132-138.
“The Wyandot’s Mission.” Ohio Archaeological and Historical Publications XV (1906): 163-181
“The Wyandot Indian Jail” N.d. MS. Ohio Historical Society.
Provenance: Descended through the Schlup family; Collected by Emil Schlup (1854-1935), Sandusky, OhioCorner of blade chipped; missing mouth piece insert; no gasket.Condition
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