Ngbandi Hippopotamus Barbed Harpoon

  • Ngbandi Hippopotamus Harpoon

  • Ngbandi Hippopotamus Harpoon

  • Ngbandi Hippopotamus Harpoon

  • Ngbandi Hippopotamus Harpoon

  • Ngbandi Hippopotamus Harpoon

  • Ngbandi Hippopotamus Harpoon

  • Ngbandi Hippopotamus Harpoon

  • Ngbandi Hippopotamus Harpoon

  • Ngbandi Hippopotamus Harpoon

Ngbandi Hippopotamus Harpoon
Ngbandi, Ngombe, Ngandu, Yakoma, Doko, Saka, Sango, or surrounding neighbors
Équateur District, 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, copper
Blade & Barbs: 22,9cm
Blade & Socket: 51,4cm
Total Length: 143,5cm
Collection Date: 2023



Ex. Scott Bergmans Collection: Lommel, Belgium (2023)
Ex. M. Clovis Pierard Collection: Mons, Belgium
Ex. Belgian Collection: (ca. 1900)



Hippopotamus hunting harpoon of the Ngbandi People or closely surrounding neighbors. The steel arrow shaped head has a medial ridge and flared barbs on each side. Two more pairs of flared barbs extend down the long steel socket on opposite sides. Wooden shaft with strips of iron and copper bindings. From an old Belgian collection. Ca. 1900.



An old collection tag on the steel socket reads " M. Clovis Piērard Dr. en Sc. Pol. et Soc. 4 rue de N. D. Débonnai Mons". Clovis Piērard was born in 1896 in Dinant and died in Mons in 1974. He was a liberal Belgian politician and a doctor in political and social sciences, a civil servant, journalist, and director of La Province de Mons, as well as an author.