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Originally Posted by Stan S.
Just guessing here... Could it be a match used o light a fuse of a canon?
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Its an idea , but I feel this is an ethnographical artefact .. the odd cloth like bundle at the end is actually formed from the beaten bark of the stick itself , and the rope is braided into similar beaten bark fibre at the other end. I am wondering if the 'free' end of the rope was in fact once also braided into the loose beaten bark .