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Functional. It's called a taiaha and is not thrown like a spear it's used more like a staff.
Are they all decorated that nicely?
Every one that I've even seen, yeah.
The decorations are also functional! The loose/dangling parts distract the eye, carvings are often a representation of the genealogy of the owner, or of the item itself.