Not jewellery but...um...a beaded *thing*

( I am using pics that are already on my lappy and as always, have lost any notion of knowing where I put this *thing* )

Does anyone know what this could be? A fly swatter perhaps ?:O


Many thanks for any ideas

 

Meant to add: the beads are glass,and the only thing I found like it is this from the British Museum but that's coral. Just thought might be a similiar shape.

 

I got these at the same time from the same seller,think this is a sautoir? But not sure x

 

Hi Boudicca! It is called a lariat
Worn with free ends knotted in front!

 

Ouch! If whipped with this

 

Thank you x x x x

 

haha I know! Those poor flies! Though I don't imagine it's very accurate, rule of averages says it'll hit one or two due to its size x

 

Lariat, yes. I think the first one is a cap.

 

I don't know where I've stashed the dam thing to take measurements but I think it's too small for a hat thing, the hatty bit anyway ,that was my first thought and there was another reason why I didn't think was hat...which I have forgotten

I'll try and dig the dam thing out of hiding x xx

 

Ah, your house eats things too.

 

Eats 'em up and sometimes spits them out!

 

What makes you think they were for...flies....

 

Well,to be honest, I don't...but the closet thing to it shape wise I could find was in the British Museum ( pic above) and that was described as a fly swatter

 

Not sure about providing links here? But this is what I am talking about...and it's not the same shape at all, just the closest I could find x
http://www.britishmuseum.org/resear..._object_details.aspx?objectId=621839&partId=1

 

It looks to me like a small pouch or bag, perhaps to be tucked at the belt? Think it would be too porous for this purpose, but something of the type:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/145522631682370868/

 

Africa. The "lariat" likely could be worn as both a necklace and a belt.

Debora

 

Does it open at either end?

 

Only the one end is open...when I first picked it up I thought it was a misers purse and put it into my bag. Imagine my horror when I got it home and ... had no idea what it is. Still have no idea what it is

 

I don't think it would work as a bag...the shape and everything is all wrong? I need to find it xx