Nice African Spear For Comment?

[Lew]

Originally Posted by tom hyle

The blade almost exactly resembles some Ethiopian military spears I have that came out of the arsenal at Addis Ababa. There are only two differences that I see: first, and lesser, is that mine have a hard, smooth, black, deliberately made original patina of some sort remaining on most of their surfaces, while this one looks like bare metal(?); second is that my Ethiopian spears are socketted, not tanged.

Tom

I think this spear is socketed if you mean that the shaft goes into the head rather than a tang being pushed into the wood similar to Moro spears?


Lew