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Originally Posted by katana
Its really strange....when I first viewed this I actually thought African....when I received it the fish carving seemed .Australasian...I've searched other examples of Tibetan Phurba and there were other examples of the fish carving. 
I am told that this was brought back from Tibet by the buyer....and is not a tourist item... |
Don't think it is a phurba, though many of them are made of wood. At 30" long it would be MUCH bigger than any I have seen, usually they are no more than ten to eleven inches long.
There are some Tibetan and Nepalese shaman drum handles that get longer, but I don't think this is a drum handle either. Most of these handles are no more than about twenty inches long though I do have a temple drum that has a longer handle. But it is thicker.
How thick is your piece?
Does the pointed end have a metal cap?
Perhaps this is some kind of wand???
Something about it disturbs me.