Spears from Buru for sharing

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Originally Posted by Rick

Perhaps it is because no one here is familiar with them ...

that is indeed the reason .

Buru is part of the Moluccan Islands, whose peoples have a history and culture of their own.
More important the island has always been very seperated due to its very wooded forest nature and geopolitical no one really had much interest in the island at all during the centuries...
Even the Dutch came first in 1915 and it was still very secluded and little developed till late 20th century.
Next to some soldiers a German scientist Prof. Dr. K. Deninger in 1910 visited the island , hardly anybody came there...
So even within the Moluccan community it is not easy to find some one from Buru.
Hence you made a lucky but very good purchase and as for the reinforcing bands from plastic: I have seen during my stay in North Africa often quite inventive use of material when repairing one item or another due to the lack of materials. Good use of material (plastic) in such a poor region.

So your feeling about the patina might well be leading when talking about age... , also with the very nice spearheads with hooks which look old.