Two nice spears, African?

[katana]

An Auction on eBay for two interesting spears, (now finished), has anyone any ideas of their origin?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6623589234&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1

[Tim Simmons]

These are nice and from the Congo and I only lost them because I forgot the seller was using $ so my bid was not as high as I was thinking :mad: Tim

[katana]

Just as I was bidding, the price shot up, couldn't get a counter bid in quick enough......ran out of time. The hazards of 'Sniping' :mad:
Do you think the (copper/brass/bronze ?) spear was 'currency' or ceremonial?

[Tim Simmons]

Most probably both, these are very nice but 19 century is quite an exaggeration. That was me but I thought I was bidding in £ so you see I rather fancied them.

[katana]

My taste in African weapons must be improving ;)

[Freddy]

Nice spears.

The one on the left is a spear of the Yakoma-tribe from Congo. The other one, I'm not sure about. Look at this pic from 'Waffen aus Zentral-Afrika' :

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/keris_hanuman/0176.jpg

[katana]

Yet, more similar spears on eBay, bidding now finished ...missed them by a few euros, I'm beginning to think there's a little workshop somewhere mass producing them ;)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6626446815&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1