African Spears for ID

[kahnjar1]

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?
Stu

[kahnjar1]

Originally Posted by kahnjar1

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?
Stu

Any ideas gentlemen?

[Timo Nieminen]

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).