 This website includes many styles of African Folk Art, including a few that are not discussed in the original article.On here, it is stated that most weapons were made of copper and brass but mainly iron.As you can imagine, most of the weapons included swords, daggers, knives, spears, axes, and other sorts of things; the weapons collected from the end of the nineteenth century and beginnings of the twentieth century could depict the ornaments collected on these weapons, probably to suggest wealth status.