“Snapshot Saturday”
![A butcher knife slices away cherry bark.](https://traditionalblackpowderhunting.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/A_New_Tomahawk_Handle.jpg)
The butcher knife sliced away tender bark from a wild cherry sapling. Two buckskins (the equivalent of one prime beaver pelt) purchased the head. In the hour that followed, the post hunter fashioned a suitable haft for the new ‘hawk. Old Northwest Territory, two ridges east of the headwaters of the River Raisin, in the Year of our Lord, 1794…