African cosh, new find today

[Tim Simmons]

Got this today at a market. I think it is great, I love the macabre beauty. The twist is so right. It is not by accident that it looks the way it does but as you know I prize this sort of thing above a lot of other stuff. Made out of sinew form a very large animal, surely the only sinew 2.5cm x 1.5cm thick can only come from an Elephant? One end it weighted and covered in a bark felt. There is an insect hole as can be seen. A total length of 40cm. It could be a weapon or hunting implement for dispatching smaller game. Equally it could be a baton/cosh used as a weapon but with nonlethal intent as in a marshaling stick used by a society when needing to keep a certain order when festivaties get out of hand rather like our police services. Anyway I think it is pretty fab!!!!