which tribe?

[Tim Simmons]

Thank you Freddy, wonderful information.I have another one but a little lighter.I aslo post the classic East African spear just simple elegant beauty,thanks Tim.

[Freddy]

Nice Masai spear, Tim.

I also have a question concerning a spear point. I just picked this one up today. It's a bit of a puzzle to me.

Most spear blades from the Congo region don't have a tang. They are fitted over the shaft. This one has a tang....and I know it comes from Congo. It came to Belgium with a family when they had to leave at the independence of Congo.

It's a small piece, 26,4 cm in total, with a tang of 7,4 cm. There is some geometric decoration between the tang and the actual blade of the spear point.

[Tim Simmons]

Hello Freddy,thats a bit of a puzzle.The tang spear is more of a southern thing.Did the donor leave the extreme south of Belgium Congo.It is not from southern Africa.These things are not set in tablets of stone , and we will come across surprises.Tim

[Freddy]

It could be Tshokwe, but I'm not sure. I just don't find any info on the way their spear blades were fixed to the shaft. I know the spear heads were small, but that's all.

Here are two more beauties :



Yakoma-tribe (possibly also Ngbandi) :



and

Nkundu-, Konda- or Lia-tribe :

[Tim Simmons]

They are beauties,I am running out of spears, I still have a few up my sleave.Flavio might have one or two.This one is back to the south sahara and another chiefly status piece.The leaf shaped blade is 17cm long not including the decorated socket part.Tim

[Flavio]

Tim, you are allright. Here it's my Swazi spear from South Africa. I have also a recent, I think, Masai spear and a Turkana one (that is quite difficult to take a pictures: it's 2.54 m long!), but at this moment i haven't good pics.