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20th February 2019, 02:15 AM | #1 |
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African Spears for ID
I am lead to believe that these spears are from Tanzania or at least that general region. Can anyone please confirm that. Also are they actual spears or purely decorative items?
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24th February 2019, 06:06 AM | #3 |
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Tanzania or Kenya, probably.
I have a similar head and tail, which came with a human-figure-carved centre wood section - a fancy tourist version of the classic East African three-piece spear. Much shorter than the real thing. If I knew where it was, I'd photograph it for comparison, but that's a tricky "if". In the absence of mine, I've attached a photo of a similar spear, of total length about 1 metre. Also, for comparison, a couple of full-size non-tourist East African spears (Maasai). If the heads/tails in your OP are close to the size of this tourist example - much smaller than the real thing - then they are almost certainly from similar tourist spears (not necessarily with the figural handle). |
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