Does anyone out there know what this thing is ?!

[Firedancintracy]

Please help and tell me what this thing is!! No one has been able to identify it!
This is the strangest little thing I have ever seen. My friend gave me this years ago, he dug it up on his family's settlement approximately around 40 years ago. It is about 2 1/2" long and it appears to have been "tatooed" as the ink designs are not lying on the surface. It is solid on one end and one tiny deliberate hole on the other. As you can see it also has designs carved into it. Any help in enlightining me on what this is, and what it was used for would be greatly appreciated!!

 

[timekiller]

Very likely some type scent pendant.Would be my guess.Sorta like this one.

 

[Firedancintracy]

That's interesting, I will look into that. Thanks

 

[timekiller]

That's interesting, I will look into that. Thanks

It be my first guess.Is it bone?

 

[timekiller]

Looks more like ceramic in the pic. to me.

 

[Firedancintracy]

I don't think it's bone, it feels like maybe coral or something like that. It does have more of an organic feel to it, kind of like an orange peel feel.

 

[theviking]

My first thought was an old cord pull, might have had a metal finial attached to one end to receive the cord..

 

[rock]

Looks like a incense burner to me or something that lets scents out.

 

[timekiller]

I don't think it's bone, it feels like maybe coral or something like that. It does have more of an organic feel to it, kind of like an orange peel feel.

Likely it's Bisque,it looks like it in your pics.

 

[Firedancintracy]

Bisque, I hadn't thought of that. Thanks for your input, it gives me a few directions to look in.

 

[Firedancintracy]

My first thought was an old cord pull, might have had a metal finial attached to one end to receive the cord..

Thats an interesting idea too, Thanks for your input

 

[Firedancintracy]

Looks like a incense burner to me or something that lets scents out.

Something to let scent out would explain the holes in it. Thanks!

 

[GatorBoy]

Antique deodorant

 

[tncreeker]

Long shot here,,,,but can you blow in the hole? Will it whistle? Just a thought

 

[Firedancintracy]

Long shot here,,,,but can you blow in the hole? Will it whistle? Just a thought

Yeah I thought an Ocarina or something like that, but I can't seem to make it make any sort of musical sound at all. It just sounds like what blowing on a capped object would sound like, if that makes any sense. Then again I can't play the guitar or drums either and they are still instruments Lol! Thanks for the input!