What the fuck is this thing?

>>32345835
nah bruh its viking lookin

>>32345835
Looks crudely ornamental, probably not a fur trade axe.

Probably some apprentice blacksmith's attempt at a medieval repro some decades ago.

>>32345863
thanks

>>32345835
God damn just looking at that thing is irritating me.

All axes with a blade extended past the attachment point to the handle, that I've ever seen, go DOWN. The extra blade length is always below the handle attachment point.

This one goes UP. What the fuck.

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>>32345835
>Found it on the north fork of Long Island.

>>32346131
figured some details might help there were indians here before they killed them all and buried them in mass graves.

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>>32346142
Indian axes were mostly acquired from French traders, they are utilitarian and simple in nature.
>See pic related

Occasionally they included a bowl in the back of the axehead for dual use as a pipe.

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>>32346142
>>32345835
>native american
The binding materials might be the only part of that to reveal anything, but that's something for an anthropologist.

The twisted part of the metal makes it look like it was forged from part of an old black-iron railing. The part connecting to the handle looks like 3-4 separate bars that were pushed together, all attached to the rail that became the blade.

The shape/design doesn't look very utilitarian either.

>>32346197
>The twisted part of the metal makes it look like it was forged from part of an old black-iron railing
It's wrought iron like fences or railing, that doesn't mean it came from a wrought iron fence.

>>32345835
>Long Island
Is it a Jewish artifact?

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It looks like a nicer example of a songye axe. They're ornamental and used for trade iirc

>>32347225
This is correct it is a songye axe the Brooklyn museum has one that is nearly identical

>>32345835
It's legit!
>>32347225

>>32346045
Yes, "bearded axe" is a natural evolution of the axe.

Bearded axe is very useful for skinning the game and for chiselling in carpentry. You hold the axe by the neck just behind the beard while working your project.

>>32345835
African ceromonial axe, probably Songalese or Congolese. Commonly made for the tourist and ethnographic export trade.

Not worth anything unless its pre 20thC

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>>32345835
>Injuns
>Metalworking

>>32346045
Go look up limbing axes.

>>32345835
The wood is in far too good a shape to be more than a few decades old. Seconding that it's probably some modern dude's attempt at a viking axe that he lost while drunk and/or cosplaying.

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>>32351232
While yes, most North American cultures were stone tool users, there were many that were using copper, bronze and in the instance of the Tlingit, Iron, long before the Europeans. Pic related.

>>32351320
I promise you, 100%, its a mass produced Songalese or Congolese export axe for the ethnographic collector's market. We used to import them by the dozen for a shop I worked in. Google Congolese Axe if you don't believe me.