The Ostuw Collection

Ball headed club from the Great Lakes region. Carved from walnut burl. Exceptional patina. From a Wisconsin Collection.PERIOD: 19th CenturyORIGIN: ...

Mid 19th Century gun stock club with 8" blade honed down from a file. File burnt with tack decorations. Originated in Iowa. Museum quality, a rare ...

Sioux warrior's deer skin shirt and leggings. Brain tanned with long fringe and ermine drops. Exceptional, clean and mint condition.PERIOD: 19th Ce...

Crow warrior's shirt/jacket made from a repurposed Canadian mounted police jacket. Older bead strips and human hair drops.PERIOD: 19th CenturyORIGI...

Southeast headed club with alligator effigy on ball. Southern pine with handle both carved and inlaid with white red heart beads.PERIOD: 19th Centu...

Pipe tomahawk with file burnt and decorated tacked shaft. Shaft 26"L so could be used on horseback. Ex. HonnenPERIOD: 19th CenturyORIGIN: Great Pla...

Eastern ball headed club of hard maple with otter effigy over ball. Original collector stated "Southern New England, Pequot, Early 1700s." High pol...

Pawnee pipe tomahawk. File burnt and tacked with remnants of yellow paint over entire shaft. Exhibited in the Wichita Falls Museum 1967, Maryland A...

Gunstock club with carved and painted feather carvings at top, lines with red paint, 4" blade, original trade point. A real weapon of tiger maple. ...

MicMac spiked club. Chip carved handle with face on head having forged file spike at top with embedded and poured lead. Brass tacks and band of red...

Plains stylized club simulating a mallard's head - halfway between a gunstock and a ball. Long file burnt handle, round head with green pigment su...

Eastern ball headed war club of Native walnut with carved face having square nailed spike set in lead. Ex. Norm Johnson.PERIOD: Mid 19th CenturyORI...

Eastern ball headed war club with antler spike. Still shows file rasp marks from carving. Decorated with dots and bird tracks. Ex. Lockwood Family,...

Southern Plains tacked ball headed club. A used piece. Native made of osage. Patina to spare.PERIOD: Late 19th Century ORIGIN: Southern Great Plain...

Northern Plains bone tube breastplate with brass beads, Russian blues and shell conch having one blue padre bead and two brass beads.PERIOD: Early ...

Oil on board 12" x 16 " Period oak frame 20" x 16". Unique raised beading style. Complete typed history on back as follows: "Chief Mountain Horse, ...

Hidatsa Arikara medicine shirt worn by a warrior who deserved honors, pre-reservation. Horseshoes represent successful horse raids, and the six qui...

Heavily adorned presentation grade pipe tomahawk with pewter inlaid fish, moon, acorn and war axe on cast iron blade.PERIOD: Mid 19th CenturyORIGIN...

19th Century Sioux war shirt of brain tanned buffalo with red ochre quill wrapped hair locks. Bead strips have stylized buffalo heads, pipes and te...

Northern Plains spontoon style pipe tomahawk with solid brass head, carved and file burnt and painted original haft.PERIOD: 19th CenturyORIGIN: Gre...

Plains pipe tomahawk with ovoid elongated blade with slight flare. File branded handle with rows of tack decorations, beaded drop. 19th Century dr...

Pipe tomahawk with brass head engraved with American eagle having crest and "Hull Curttss, November 1, 1776". Shaft has tacks, pewter inlays and fi...

Presentation pipe tomahawk with brass blade and cutouts. Noted on blade "A. Angstadt, Ohio, 1811." Hand engraved eagle, star and dove. Scalloped an...

Spontoon pipe tomahawk came from an Osage family in Pahuska, Oklahoma. Spontoon style is credited as the "last true weapon" that was used during th...

Pewter blade with inlayed brass weeping heart on one side and crescent moon on other. Vame from an Osage family in Pahuska, Oklahoma. Spontoon styl...

Pipe tomahawk with blade shaped like bowie knife. Original haft with pewter mouth piece. Assume used for fighting as the haft was never drilled nor...

Pipe tomahawk with incised and file burnt handle. Eight holes for drops, scalloped haft. This piece used for smoking rather than fighting. This pie...

Treaty knife we assume accompanied or took the place of a Peace Medal. Blade from a US Cavalry sabre, elk bone handle. Guard stylized arrowhead. Ha...

Northern Plains war club with stylized stone buffalo head. Raw hide wrapped adorned with brass tacks. Much patina from use - blood, grease and swea...

Beaver tail bowie. 19th Century treaty knife with engraved blade. "Peace" and crossed arrows, Damascus steel, used in place of a presentation pipe ...

Mountain man's large bowie. Heavy, thick blade with stag horn grip, brass ferrule, blade made from European sword. Either used by a mountain man or...

Frontiersman's/Rifleman's hand forged knife. Heavy, thick blade with antler handle having maker's mark "eye". Pictured in Peterson's book.PERIOD: M...

Blackfeet fighting dag native made with blade from a wagon wheel or barrel rim. Blade goes full length of handle and protrudes 8 1/4". Much patina ...