Tomahawk: Materiality and Depictions of the Haudenosaunee.
The article investigates the enduring stereotype of the cruel and warlike Iroquois in early American writings and visual representations. It looks at the tomahawk as a material object that reifies this stereotype and appears repeatedly across visual, written, and material culture through the eightee...
| Publicado en: | Early American Literature Vol. 53; no. 2; pp. 475 - 512 |
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University of North Carolina Press
2018
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