Three spears for comment

Battara · 27th December 2005, 05:18 AM

The 2 reasons I would vote for Africa for the last one is:

a) the barbs and they manner they are pointed
b) as opposed to many Indonesian and Philippine spears and weapons, Africans make more use of pure copper and copper coil wrap

BTW - the spears that do have barbs from the Philippines are from the Igorot tribes of Luzon and point in one direction.

Henk · 27th December 2005, 02:30 PM

Yes, the link shows barbed spears with the barbs in the same direction indeed.

I bought the spears together with some sumatran pieces, but also the yagathan I showed in another thread and that possible Phillipine dagger was in the buy and a kukri. It was a bit of a mix.

The haft of our "african" spear becomes thicker after 20 cm. The middle part is 82 cm long and ends in a thicker end of 26 cm. I think the haft is bambu although it hasn't the bambu knots. But color and feeling of the wood gives me the idea of bambu and it looks like the tree parts are stuck into each other and are attached very firmly. The haft is old and not a recent replacement.

27th December 2005, 05:18 AM	#1
Battara EAAF Staff Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Louisville, KY Posts: 7,270	The 2 reasons I would vote for Africa for the last one is: a) the barbs and they manner they are pointed b) as opposed to many Indonesian and Philippine spears and weapons, Africans make more use of pure copper and copper coil wrap BTW - the spears that do have barbs from the Philippines are from the Igorot tribes of Luzon and point in one direction.

27th December 2005, 02:30 PM	#2
Henk Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 1,209	Yes, the link shows barbed spears with the barbs in the same direction indeed. I bought the spears together with some sumatran pieces, but also the yagathan I showed in another thread and that possible Phillipine dagger was in the buy and a kukri. It was a bit of a mix. The haft of our "african" spear becomes thicker after 20 cm. The middle part is 82 cm long and ends in a thicker end of 26 cm. I think the haft is bambu although it hasn't the bambu knots. But color and feeling of the wood gives me the idea of bambu and it looks like the tree parts are stuck into each other and are attached very firmly. The haft is old and not a recent replacement.