Massai ceremonial initiation spear for comment

katana · 26th March 2007, 07:55 PM

Hi Tim,
the binding (wire?) on your spear is very similar to the bindings found on a number of Zulu spears.

Tim Simmons · 26th March 2007, 08:13 PM

Hi David,

This is a difficult area to be certain as the same weapons and technology is used by many people that live in the South East tip of African. I have always thought that the real good Zulu artifacts do not usually come with the brass wire decoration but that could just be one of those collector opinions. A good book to get is quite cheap and from amazon- Art of South East Africa. having said that I do have things that I believe are Zulu and they do not have brass wire on them.

26th March 2007, 07:55 PM	#1
katana Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Kent Posts: 2,658	Hi Tim, the binding (wire?) on your spear is very similar to the bindings found on a number of Zulu spears.

26th March 2007, 08:13 PM	#2
Tim Simmons Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: What is still UK Posts: 5,855	Hi David, This is a difficult area to be certain as the same weapons and technology is used by many people that live in the South East tip of African. I have always thought that the real good Zulu artifacts do not usually come with the brass wire decoration but that could just be one of those collector opinions. A good book to get is quite cheap and from amazon- Art of South East Africa. having said that I do have things that I believe are Zulu and they do not have brass wire on them.