African spears won Wednesday

colin henshaw · 8th May 2021, 12:21 PM

This type of spear was used (even until fairly recently) by several different tribal groups in Uganda, Kenya and South Sudan, such as Turkana, Karamajong, Pokot, Latuka etc.

David R · 17th May 2021, 04:05 PM

They arrived today, and I am rather pleased with them, the photo's were spot on. Now I have to find a place to display them, my ceilings are too low to have them upright in any of the rooms, so it's going to be the stairwell or horizontally along a wall.
I am in fact running out of wall-space generally, "old collector problems"!

Hard to say how old they actually are, but not tourist pieces for certain. Well forged from single pieces of iron, and sharp as ruddy razors.

8th May 2021, 12:21 PM	#1
colin henshaw Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 1,429	This type of spear was used (even until fairly recently) by several different tribal groups in Uganda, Kenya and South Sudan, such as Turkana, Karamajong, Pokot, Latuka etc.

17th May 2021, 04:05 PM	#2
David R Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 1,114	They arrived today, and I am rather pleased with them, the photo's were spot on. Now I have to find a place to display them, my ceilings are too low to have them upright in any of the rooms, so it's going to be the stairwell or horizontally along a wall. I am in fact running out of wall-space generally, "old collector problems"! Hard to say how old they actually are, but not tourist pieces for certain. Well forged from single pieces of iron, and sharp as ruddy razors.