New member / Collector of African weapons

[JW]

First I would like to thank you all for the warm welcome on the board. And of course I have to say thank you for your comments on the objects I have posted. I will upload more photos of some of my African knives and look forward hearing your opinions about those.

@ Vandoo: It is difficult to say something about your two knives without having a photo. Maybe you can take a shot and upload it to the forum.
In most cases it is not easy to say for what purpose African knives were made. In my eyes it is not correct to talk about African weapons, because to many of those weapons were never used as weapons. I think talking about blacksmith art is better. The two knives (Fang / Kota and the Ngul / Dinga) were definately not used as a weapon. One indication is the blade what is in both cases not sharp to be used as a weapon. I think both objects were used for ceremonial reasons or to demonstrate power or as a symbol of somebody's position in a tribe's hirachy.

In this special case of the Kota / Fang and the Ngul / Dinga knives I have two very similar objects in my collection. The reason why is very simple: I don't know to which on I should say bye bye. As you can see on the photos they are really similar and maybe understand my little 'problem'.