Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Knobkerries x2 , ID and comments welcome.

katana · 18th January 2010, 12:22 PM

Hi Lew,
thank you for your comments

,

The knobkerries were bought individually, at different times. The smaller one was described as a Zulu 'shield beater'

The larger, hand tooled one seems to be made in the Zulu 'mould' (mold

) I have seen provenanced Zulu knobkerries that are not made from the usual bi-coloured wood and number of which were hand carved. In fact, I have been told that the majority of the bi-coloured type are early 20th C onwards (an opinion of a 'Zulu' collector)

Unfortunately, Spring hardly mentions knobkerries in "African arms and Armour" and Stone's " A glossary.......Arms and Armour...." mentions even less.

Tried to search google for "Gogo club" in image search..but just get pictures of scantily clad females

not a bad thing, but not really helpful

All the best
David

18th January 2010, 12:22 PM	#3
katana Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Kent Posts: 2,658	Hi Lew, thank you for your comments , The knobkerries were bought individually, at different times. The smaller one was described as a Zulu 'shield beater' The larger, hand tooled one seems to be made in the Zulu 'mould' (mold ) I have seen provenanced Zulu knobkerries that are not made from the usual bi-coloured wood and number of which were hand carved. In fact, I have been told that the majority of the bi-coloured type are early 20th C onwards (an opinion of a 'Zulu' collector) Unfortunately, Spring hardly mentions knobkerries in "African arms and Armour" and Stone's " A glossary.......Arms and Armour...." mentions even less. Tried to search google for "Gogo club" in image search..but just get pictures of scantily clad females not a bad thing, but not really helpful All the best David Last edited by katana; 18th January 2010 at 08:58 PM.