African sword ID needed / congo ?
 

Dear All,

What did I buy :confused:

That's a Salampasu sword; this thread has a picture posted by Freddy that looks like yours, hair and all:

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ight=salampasu

Looks like a real nice one to me!

--Radleigh

Indeed a very nice piece, and complete with the tail. I have never found one like that before. Congratulations !

Thanks for the info.
Salampasu is just not the first word that came to my mind.
With this word and some googling I notice that these swords are amazingly uniform in size, form and decoration.

The tails appeear to be very original to the word. In fact these are 3 tails.
The black one appears to be an actual complete tail (skin without the bone)
The brown ones I am not sure, maybe they ar put together by strips of fur.

Did they (the Salampasu, is it the tribes name) make shields too?

A good heavy weapon the Salampasu sword !
I don't know Salampasu shield, no example in my documentation.
Luc

Wasn't he the leading actor on " The Pumpkinhead"?