Unknown 'stick'

[thinreadline]

About 8 years ago I bought the entire contents of a small Boer War museum . It contained quite a lot of ethnographical artefacts and amongst them was this odd stick with rope entwined around it .... anyone out there got any clues as to what it might be ?

[Stan S.]

Just guessing here... Could it be a match used o light a fuse of a canon?

[thinreadline]

Originally Posted by Stan S.

Just guessing here... Could it be a match used o light a fuse of a canon?

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 .

[Ibrahiim al Balooshi]

Originally Posted by thinreadline

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 .

Salaams thinreadline ~ Top of a flagpole shot off at Rourkes Drift ! This is a very interesting forum UFO... I look forward to knowing its true description.
Ibrahiim.

[Lew]

It might be a makeshift riding stick but it really very nondescript could be anything ?

[thinreadline]

Originally Posted by Lew

It might be a migshift riding stick but it really very nondescript could be anything ?

Sorry .. but what is 'migshift' ?
Perhaps it is some kind of riding crop but what intrigues me is the way in which the outer bark of the stick has been beaten out into bark cloth and then braided into the rope ... this for a riding crop would be superflous ... it is not even a decorative feature. Bark cloth made in this way is also seen in a wide range of ethnographic artefacts so I am wondering what might this be . As an aside, there were 3 of these in the collection all basically the same but with minor variations ...

[thinreadline]

Originally Posted by Ibrahiim al Balooshi

Salaams thinreadline ~ Top of a flagpole shot off at Rourkes Drift ! This is a very interesting forum UFO... I look forward to knowing its true description.
Ibrahiim.

Ah if only it were !