African Spears

SchwarzStock · 29th May 2024, 06:13 PM

I think I go these on a trip to Burundi and Benin......

The one with the barbs slipped in my hand, hope there was not dried poison on that one!

Araña_del_Sol · 30th May 2024, 11:23 PM

Interesting pieces, they both look Congolese to me. The barbed spear looks like a zaga of the Ngbandi people. The other spear could also be Ngbandi but I am not as confident in that ID. Hope your are well and poison free.

- ADS

Sajen · 31st May 2024, 12:14 AM

Search here: https://african-weapons.com//gallery?african-spears
I am sure you will find a match!

SchwarzStock · 31st May 2024, 08:41 AM

I have a bunch of stuff collected from travels in Africa. Most of it my ex-wife did not want on the walls so I was hidden away in closets and boxes. One day we go to a Mall in Tucson and wander into a furnishing store. We go different directions and then she comes to ask me to look at something with her. I follow her to another part of the store and she points out a shadow box containing two fake African Spears constructed entirely of wood for a paltry $300. I just had to laugh! When she asked why I told her we have the real thing at home and I can build her a shadow box for next to nothing. It was not important to her after then so the box was never built. The only things she allowed up were some of the masks, the tourist ones, not the real antique ones that smell "like Africa"...

milandro · 7th June 2024, 07:46 AM

I agree, 'Ngbandi, Congo, they are fairly common in the NL and even more in the neighbouring Belgium.

29th May 2024, 06:13 PM	#1
SchwarzStock Member Join Date: May 2024 Posts: 11	African Spears I think I go these on a trip to Burundi and Benin...... The one with the barbs slipped in my hand, hope there was not dried poison on that one! Attached Images

31st May 2024, 08:41 AM	#4
SchwarzStock Member Join Date: May 2024 Posts: 11	Funny Story I have a bunch of stuff collected from travels in Africa. Most of it my ex-wife did not want on the walls so I was hidden away in closets and boxes. One day we go to a Mall in Tucson and wander into a furnishing store. We go different directions and then she comes to ask me to look at something with her. I follow her to another part of the store and she points out a shadow box containing two fake African Spears constructed entirely of wood for a paltry $300. I just had to laugh! When she asked why I told her we have the real thing at home and I can build her a shadow box for next to nothing. It was not important to her after then so the box was never built. The only things she allowed up were some of the masks, the tourist ones, not the real antique ones that smell "like Africa"...

30th May 2024, 11:23 PM	#2
Araña_del_Sol Member Join Date: Oct 2018 Posts: 46	Interesting pieces, they both look Congolese to me. The barbed spear looks like a zaga of the Ngbandi people. The other spear could also be Ngbandi but I am not as confident in that ID. Hope your are well and poison free. - ADS

31st May 2024, 12:14 AM	#3
Sajen Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Germany, Dortmund Posts: 8,761	Search here: https://african-weapons.com//gallery?african-spears I am sure you will find a match!

7th June 2024, 07:46 AM	#5
milandro Member Join Date: Jan 2022 Location: Netherlands Posts: 472	I agree, 'Ngbandi, Congo, they are fairly common in the NL and even more in the neighbouring Belgium.