Beautiful Old Wooden Spoke Shaped Whatsit! antique curiousity and its rusty brown color

and its rusty brown color animated with drippy black veins

simple and direct

fine decoration is hand engraved on the surface

typically stuffed with reed or fiber

Beautiful Old Wooden Spoke Shaped Whatsit! antique curiousity and its rusty brown colorI'd love to know what this is! Clearly it was made for a purpose, and surely was part of some larger thing, but I have not been able to figure out what. Something related to spinning wool, perhaps? I purchased it because I thought it was just a beautiful and curious sculptural object that would look great propped or hanging somewhere or perhaps could be put to use in a new way! The six wooden spokes end in teeth as they meet at the center of the