1804 J. Ordway Jrnl. 29 Dec. in (1995) IX. 106 They Brought their Squaw axes & kittle to fix and mend.
1921 C. Lockhart vii. 56 You can git the squaw-axe and hack out a place fer a bed-ground.
1988 H. K. McEvoy vi. 112 There are four main types of tomahawks used most often today in muzzleloading and other forms of competition. These are the spike tomahawk, the pipe tomahawk, the hammer poll, and the ‘squaw-axe’.