I got this in a mixed lot with no information, it's 2ft long and has alternating flat blades. I've never seen a spear like this before, does anyone have any info about it?

I have an African tribal 3 piece spear I am looking to sell. Are there any websites that are recommended?

It's about 3 feet long, spearhead made of bone :)

Ash shaft, carbon steel head and leather fittings.

So something I put together....

Can someone tell me where this spear comes from? Theres a symbol on each side of the blade.

I know there's a weapon called a Naginata, a Guandao, and something called a Bisento... But I can't tell the difference between these spears with a curved blade attatched at the end. Can somebody explain how to tell the differences on sight?

Also, related, how would you classify this thing below as? It's from a game.

So, a got this from a customer of mine. She said someone gave it to her husband in exchange for some work about 60 years ago. Her husband has since passed. I've tried googling everything I can think of, but no luck. It is iron, and was mounted on a pole at one point in time as there is a nail through one of the holes in the handle, as well as some wood in handle. The nail is peened over and has the same petina as the rest of the blade. I was in eastern PA when I acquired this, in case it's a local peice. I'd really like to figure out some information on it so I can mount it to a correct pole. Any thoughts? 🤷

Hello everyone, I recently purchased this spear off the wall of a Japanese restaurant. So far from what I investigated, I think it is a Japanese pillow Yari since its length is 4ft 10 inches. The question is going off the rust on the tang, is it a real Japanese spear or a replica? The owner said it was used during the warring times, which I kinda doubt.

I remember reading in The Western Way of War by Hanson stating that part of the reason why Arrows were ineffective against the Greek Phalanx and later Macedonian Pikemen was that in addition to the shield Wall and Bronze Armor, the long spears hoplites and Macedonian phalangites typically held vertically before the clash protected him from arrows or at least dulled it before it actually hits him.

I am curious how does long Pole-Arm Weapons protect its wielder from Arrows?

Also I am curious-The Scots used the Schiltron, a long formation in which they were wielded long pole arms (pikes) and part of the formation included men behind wielding their pikes vertically. In this case however I read the Schiltron was vulnerable to archery barrages and that it was arrows that broke through William Wallace's formation at Falkirk.

In this case why didn't the long pole arms held vertically protect Wallace's pikemen as opposed to the Greek Hoplites?

Does holding spears vertically provide protection against arrow barrages?

Hanson's claims is inconsistent.

The Yari Ashigaru and Yari Samurais and to a much leser extent Roman legionnaires were known to suffer casualties despite being in spear walls.

However Macedonians historical texts describes the same thing about the long Sarissas protecting the Macedonian Phalanx from arrows and the Swiss Pikeman despite lacking shields in their formations also suffered minimal casualties from arrows in their squares.

I am curious why this inconsistencies in account?

Okay, Aloy's Champion Spear from Horizon Forbidden West. Does anybody know if there's an actual name behind that type of weapon beyond spear or lance? What's it based on?

I also want to know if anyone knows where I could get a copy of the weapon made. The way she moves in the game looks like so much fun. I started to copy the movements with a stunt lightsaber spear I made to the same sizing scale as Aloy & her spear in HFW & I would absolutely love to get my hands on one.

Picked this spear up from an antique shop. The owner knew nothing about it and I thought it looked pretty cool and old. I don’t think the handle is original but I’m pretty new to the world of old weapon collecting. Just started the collection recently and thought this was a cool addition. If anyone has any idea if this is just some piece a random person made or if it has any history, it would be greatly appreciated.

I've been wanting to make a spear head with a bit of etching but want to understand if spear heads only come with sockets to place over a wooden shaft or whether there are "tang" options (like swords and knives) which could slot into a notched head of a staff secured by pins. Would this compromise the strength of the shaft? sorry if this is a dumb question - new to this.

No clue if it’s old or a replica/homemade

I am conducting some research for my university ethnography collection and both my professor and I are stumped trying to figure out the cultural identity for this spear.

It was accessioned into our museum with a ton of stuff with next to no information and (from what we can tell) was incorrectly labeled as an ‘East African Spear’. I’ve found one other similar spear in the Harvard Peabody museum collection, but there it is only titled as a “Liberian Chief’s Spear”. (Here is the link to that one https://collections.peabody.harvard.edu/objects/details/659760 )

The spear does connect into one piece and is connected by a thin leather strap. We think it’s probably west African circa ~1970. If anyone has any additional links or info it would be appreciated.

Hey folks, was about to ask this on the sword sub but that'd be off topic so I came here instead. Does anyone know any place that sells reproduction sharp jumonji yari, heads or the full spear? It's always been my favourite style and I really want to own one. Thanks in advance! :)

I'm familiar with spear types like the naginata and the glave, but all spear types iv done a bit of resurch on all seem to have cylindrical shafts which kinda defeats the point of slashing cos there would be no edge alignment, so does anyone have any images of spears with rectangular shafts

Had to read All Quiet On the Western Front for college before the start of this month and there's a chapter where they talk about how you shouldn't hit someone in their upperbody with a bayonet because the blade or stabby thingy will get stuck in their rib s but instead hit them in the stomach where it will be easy to take out immediately afterwards. In lectures in class this was emphasized in esp in sections about military training and we also read first person accounts describing something similar..........

I'm confused why does this only seem to be emphasized in World War 1? As a weapon used for over 200 years, shouldn't we find lots of similar maxims in the American Revolution, Napoleonic Wars, and the American Civil War? More importantly bayonets continued to be used up until the next World War yet we don't hear about Japanese soldiers being taught to stab the stomach in dojos and in bootcamp. Nor do we see accounts of the bayonet getting stuck in the ribs in building to building fighting in the Eastern Front where close quarters combat was a lot more common between German soldiers and the Soviets and communist partisans than it was in the Western Front.

I mean the Human Waves rush by the Chinese after the War and the stealth attacks by the Viet Cong during America's intervention in Vietnam should have led to this "avoid ribs, hit stomach" being repeated no?

Yet all the times I seen this doctrine is almost exclusively to World War 1. So I'm confused. Can anyone clarify about this?