How to Display an Indian Hatchet, Peace Pipe & Tomahawk

Whether Native American craft items are authentic artifacts of intrinsic cultural and monetary value or facsimiles collected for their ethnic appeal and primitive beauty, they can be showcased effectively in a shadow box. A shadow box is composed of a wall-hung, rectangular display board, sized to showcase selected objects and framed by four sides of sufficient depth to enclose the objects within. An American Indian hatchet, peace pipe and tomahawk can all be displayed in a grouping on the display surface of a single shadow box. Glass fronts, if any, must be removed to access the display surface of shadow boxes.

Shadow box
Glue
Hammer
Scissors
Picture hook
Picture wire
Screw eyes

Instructions

- 1
  Place the shadow box on its back with the display surface facing upward and remove the glass cover, if there is one.
- 2
  Place the tomahawk down on the display surface, horizontally with the blade on the left, on the upper portion of the display area, and glue in place.
- 3
  Place the peace pipe down on the display surface below the tomahawk, at an angle, in the center of the display area, with the bowl of the pipe on the lower left and the mouthpiece on the upper right. Glue in place.
- 4
  Place the hatchet down horizontally in the lower portion of the display area with the blade on the right, facing up. Glue in place and replace the glass cover, if any.
- 5
  Place the shadow box on its side and install a screw eye on each side of the upper portion of the rear surface that will face the wall.
- 6
  Thread the picture wire through the screw eyes and secure it by knotting or twisting the wire back around itself. Remove any excess wire with the scissors.
- 7
  Hammer the picture hook into the wall at the desired location and hang the shadow box on the hook with the attached wire.

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