Zande not Polynesian Spear Identified
 

Need some help identifing this spear point. Can anyone tell what it might be?

Hello Double D, welcome to the forum!! This is an african spear point. Take a look here

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=729

Flavio,

Thanks for the welcome and thanks for the response. Polynesia was close only about 6,000 or so miles off.

Here is the stub of a shaft. The shaft to me looks to be some sort of recent add on. Does anyone have any idea what a correct shaft looks like? How long? What shape?

Would there be any reason to not make a more correct appearing shaft?

THE SHAFT SEEMS TO BE LEATHER COVERED WITH THE DECORATIVE BANDS AND PROBABLY MADE SHORT ON PURPOSE. IT LOOKS LIKE THIS ITEM WAS BEING USED FOR CEREMONYS AND DANCING IN ITS LATER LIFE. IF SO IT IS A VALID CEREMONIAL ETHINOGRAPHIC SPEAR WITH THE SHAFT IT HAS. DOES THE SHAFT LOOK BRAND NEW OR DOES IT SHOW AGE AND ACTUAL USE?
I HAVE ONE OF THESE SPEAR POINTS BUT NO SHAFT SO CAN'T BE OF MUCH HELP AS TO HOW AN ORIGINAL SPEAR SHAFT OF THIS TYPE LOOKED. EITHER WAY I WOULD NOT THROW AWAY THE SHAFT IT CAME WITH. GOOD LUCK

The shaft looks older but "refitted".

In the week that I have been a Spear collector I have learned that the Zande were a very small tribe that made all kinds of weapons in all sorts of configurations.

All I can find about the Zande seems to indcate that they were primarily farmers and did some hunting.

From the large numbers of knives and swords credit to them they also appear to have been ironmongers also.

Why so many different types of weapons from such a small group of people.

This spear, would it be primarily ceremonial? Decorative? Hunting? Fighting?

Heres another thread thats relavent

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=2056

Well some of the examples posted in the links are very close but not the same. They surely are related.