African spear for ID
The spear was bought in Addis Ababa, but, acc. to the seller, it is comming from Sudan. I donīt know, if he is true or not. Nevertheless, based on this and also on the picture from and advanturous story (enclosed) I put it together with some other Sudanese items. But of course the arrangement on the wall could be pure fanthasy, since Sudanese mostly used big spears with hearth shaped wide spearheads... So please, if anybody has similar spear or saw it in the literature, give me advice.
The spear is, I would say, from heavier cathegory (not only the head but also the wooden poart), it is 240 cms long, from which 79 cms makes the spearhead. Max. width of spearhead is 3.5 cms (lentil cross-section), 7 cms in widened part. Brass strips are original.
Regards,
Martin
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