Decorative colonial saddle parts??

[RayLJ]

Hunted a site yesterday that has historically yielded early colonial period items - farthings, maravedis, and tons of buttons from that time. Yesterday I found three items that appear to be some sort of brass horse tack and two of them are quite decorative. I'm really intrigued by the one that appears to depict and African warrior of some sort. Anyone know if this really is horse tack, when this could be from, or more about the designs? Thanks for any help!!

 

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[Mud Hut]

The piece on the left looks like the bracket that held the bail (handle) on a bucket

 

[RayLJ]

That's interesting. You can tell where the bucket would have attached to the rivets. Thanks.