Nice spears, Tim. For some reason I've always thought that the all-iron type (with some brass inlay) belong to the desert-dwelling Taureg, where there would be little suitable wood for spear-shafts. The type like yours, with a wooden shaft, I presumed to be from the Muslim sahel peoples, eg. Hausa, Fulani etc., who would have access to longish tree branches...
But I have no hard evidence for this theory.
Regards.
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