African staff,area?

Freddy · 9th January 2005, 06:37 PM

This one a mystery for me, too. Don't know where to place it. Are you sure it's African ?

Here's another one, also a status symbol. The origin is again Gogo (Tanzania). I bought it with this stand, which is a very nice method of displaying African clubs.

The second one, I want to show, is not exactly a club. It's a wooden sword. The origin is Congo. I got some information from a friend who owns a gallery in Brussels and he says it's Kuba. This tribe is known to use wooden weapons on particular days during the month when iron weapons are outlawed. It has something to do with the lunar cycle.
When I first got the sword, I found it resembled the sword of the Bena Lulua, also from Congo.

9th January 2005, 06:37 PM	#13
Freddy Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Sint-Amandsberg (near Ghent, Belgium) Posts: 830	? ? This one a mystery for me, too. Don't know where to place it. Are you sure it's African ? Here's another one, also a status symbol. The origin is again Gogo (Tanzania). I bought it with this stand, which is a very nice method of displaying African clubs. The second one, I want to show, is not exactly a club. It's a wooden sword. The origin is Congo. I got some information from a friend who owns a gallery in Brussels and he says it's Kuba. This tribe is known to use wooden weapons on particular days during the month when iron weapons are outlawed. It has something to do with the lunar cycle. When I first got the sword, I found it resembled the sword of the Bena Lulua, also from Congo.