Nice African Spear For Comment?

Freddy · 24th May 2005, 07:18 PM

I think Lew is right when he says Ethiopian or Somalian. In the book 'African Arms and Armour' by Christopher Spring p 103. A couple of similar spears are depicted.

Besides the drawing is the following text :

"Somali and Danakil spear heads. Such blades often have a double concavity on either side of a raised median ridge though in less sophisticated exemples an impression of this structure is created on a flat surface simply by polishing a stripe of bright metal between two blackened segments."

Perhaps your spear head was a bit overpolished by its former owner.

24th May 2005, 07:18 PM	#5
Freddy Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Sint-Amandsberg (near Ghent, Belgium) Posts: 830	I think Lew is right when he says Ethiopian or Somalian. In the book 'African Arms and Armour' by Christopher Spring p 103. A couple of similar spears are depicted. Besides the drawing is the following text : "Somali and Danakil spear heads. Such blades often have a double concavity on either side of a raised median ridge though in less sophisticated exemples an impression of this structure is created on a flat surface simply by polishing a stripe of bright metal between two blackened segments." Perhaps your spear head was a bit overpolished by its former owner.