My Wife's African Sticks

[The Double D]

When ever I pick up a Zulu spear, the wife seems to think she should get something also. She has been gathering up knobkerries. Last night to celebrate New Years Eve, since we are well past the past party animal age, we set her sticks up and took pictures of them.



Her favorite is the second from the left. We got it last week. I know we aren't supposed to talk prices here, but it's acquistion is part of a cute story.

The Wife and I spent Christmas at Isandlwana Lodge in Zululand. Christmas morning the Lodge has a tradition of driving guests around the villages and passing out bags of candy to the children. As we were driving around we saw a kid herding cows. We called him over and gave him a bag of candy. He had this stick that was cut from a root wad and the end was just broken off. My wife said see if he will sell his stick. I offered him 2 Rand. He didn't say anything. I offered 5 Rand and he said yes and pointed at another bag of candy. So this is the knobbkerrie that my wife got from a real Zulu.

So next time someone asks how much a knobbkerrie is worth we can say at least one bag of Christmas Candy!

Happy New Year everyone!!!