What is it? Game 29

Today's collaboration with What is it? Blog brings us this object to guess: what is this strange object?

Place your guess in the comment and please post no URL. No prize this week, you're playing for bragging rights only. For more clues, please visit What is it? Blog.

Update 7/13/07: It's a threshing flail - apparently, it's so easy practically everyone got it! Yay for you!


thats for separate the wheat from the plant when this is dry :)

first cut all the plants and put togheter, after a group of people with thats strike the plants and separate the the wheat :)

sorry for my english :)
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Anyone familiar with oriental military history will be aware that the nunchaku is believed to have derived from rice flails and used by untrained militias, so in principle at least, it could be both.
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I see everybody knows it. In León, Spain, we call it "mayal". The act of hitting the corn, to separate it from the plant, it's named "mayar".
very good blog!
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This is a Benjoul, an Amicinniarissan symbol of temporal authority. The Amicinna were a society discovered living on the coast of Peru who fervently did not believe in time. There culture resolved around the 'here and now' mode of existence and it is said they had a profound effect on young Einstein during his missionary trips to South America. The temporal authority was the chosen person who told everyone when to do things, such as getting up or eating lunch. As part of their beliefs, he was strictly ignored. Temporal Authoritys usually committed suicide within a few years, so only unpopular tribe members or criminals were chosen for the jobs. The small collection of tribes were wiped out to a person in 1957 by unusually high tides.
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I don't think it's for a grain; I think it's for flax. After you rett (let rot) the flax, you need to break it into fibers. I think this tool was used for that purpose.
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It's a wheat flail, used to thresh grain (seconding or thirding a couple of the other answers above).

It has also been used as a weapon in various cultures across the world. In East Asian martial arts, it's referred to as a "two-sectional staff." In Chinese martial arts, the two sections can either be varying lengths, like the staff pictured, while the Okinawan nunchaku often has the two segments be shorter, and of equal length.
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