Mongo Spear

  • Mongo Spear

  • Mongo Spear

  • Mongo Spear

  • Mongo Spear

  • Mongo Spear

  • Mongo Spear

  • Mongo Spear

Mongo Spear
Mongo, Lokele, So, Olombo, Mba, Hanga, Ngombe, or surrounding neighbors
Congo Free State - Équateur Province- Orientale Province, Belgian Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Late 19th - Early 20th century (ca. 1890 - 1900)
Steel, wood, iron
Blade: 38,1cm
Blade & Socket: 42,5cm
Total Length: 165,1cm
Collection Date: 2023
Collection Number: 341


Ex. Scott Bergmans Collection: Lommel, Belgium (2023)
Ex. Belgian Collection: (ca. 1900)


Spear of the Mongo or surrounding neighbors. The large steel spearhead of rounded flared base tapering to a point with linear grooves on one half the blade. They are offset on the reverse side. Wooden shaft with groups of iron strips of binding along the entirety of the shaft. At the base, a large octagonal steel butt spike is present. From an old Belgian collection. Ca. 1900.


Photo 6: Mbesa Warriors.
Photo 7: The chief with his warriors in Aruwimi District, 1898.