Help Id weird spindle thing and necklace?

maybe u could fashion it together with other nice beads...?

 

I get the feeling it's older..

 

And for those searching for similar on the internet remember to only keyword bone…

 

Beautiful but with big ivory chunks they get so heavy. I have one that sits out as an object as it’s just too heavy to wear. Same with my Precolumbians…

 

Me too. IMO there’s no real way to date it but my guess would be 65-80s. By the mid 60s the whole Moroccan/African hippy dippy stuff was starting. It would look great as a pendant with a $4 shoemaker/cobbler leather thong knotted through it or great as an object on a little steel/metal stand.

 

I'd look for images of Iris Apfel and see what she'd do with it. Just to throw another name in there. She didn't hit the fashion influencer Bigtime until she was over 90, but now has her own line on one of those TV shopping channels. Kid you not. Big chunky jools are her trademark.

 

First item looks like bone to me.

 

The editor of Vogue before Mirabella and Wintour…iconic in fashion.

 

IMO you cannot date it other than 60s forward. Although it could be tea stained it looks good to me for an older piece.