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This photo from March 15, 2019, photo courtesy of the Seneca-Iroquois National Museum of New York, shows a long lost pipe of peace that President George Washington gave to Indian Chief Seneca Cornplanter in the late eighteenth century. which has been restored to the tribe of western New York. An anonymous collector returned the artifact to the museum and officials decided to return it to the Sénécas. (National Museum Philip J. Pantano / Seneca-Iroquois via AP)
SALAMANCA, N.Y. – A tomahawk that President George Washington handed over to a Seneca leader in the late eighteenth century was returned to the West New York tribe.
Washington gave Cornplanter the smoking tobacco and weapon combination as the United States negotiated a peace treaty with the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy.
The artifact was eventually found at the State Museum in Albany, where it remained until it was stolen in the late 1940s.
Last year, an anonymous collector returned the artifact to the museum. The officials there decided to return it to Seneca.
Cornplanter's tomahawk pipe was presented Thursday to the Seneca Nation of Indians, who exposed the artifact at the Seneca-Iroquois National Museum in Salamanca, near the Pennsylvania border, 80 kilometers south of Buffalo.
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