Three African spears for ID

[Martin Lubojacky]

Originally Posted by Iain

I have yet to take proper pictures but members might enjoy a quick look at a monster example from northern Nigeria recently acquired. This was in a museum since 1913 and field collected between 1905 and that date. Shown with a takouba to give a sense of the scale, this one is 92cm overall and with shaft would have been around 3 meters overall, quite sharp still!

Hi Iain,
Finally possibility to assign this old sword (photos below), which is very similar to the sword which is on your photo together with the spearhead an takouba. - Do you, please, know the tribe ?
Best,
Martin

[Iain]

Originally Posted by Martin Lubojacky

Hi Iain,
Finally possibility to assign this old sword (photos below), which is very similar to the sword which is on your photo together with the spearhead an takouba. - Do you, please, know the tribe ?
Best,
Martin

Hi Martin, I wish I could give you a better answer but I'm also not sure. My guess has always been Mundang or Wandala. I posted it before here http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=17871

[Martin Lubojacky]

Thank you for reminder of this interesting previous thread. I nearly forgot....
The drawings of the swords are from
"Handbook of ethnic units in Nigeria" (Veroffentlichungen des Frobenius-Instituts an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat zu Frankfurt/Main)
or
"Die materielle Kultur der nicht-islamischen Ethnien von Nordkamerun und Nordostnigeria" (Studien zur Kulturkunde) (German Edition).

I think I could buy this book on Amazon.
Best
Martin

[Iain]

Originally Posted by Martin Lubojacky

"Die materielle Kultur der nicht-islamischen Ethnien von Nordkamerun und Nordostnigeria" (Studien zur Kulturkunde) (German Edition).

Hi Martin, It should be this title I think. Unfortunately as I recall the text does not include much more detail and I don't believe there are any actual photos of similar pieces in the book - still it is valuable reference material.

[Iain]

I finally got around to shooting some proper images of this lance, so I thought I'd add them to the thread.