Whilst you lucky ones spend your time making hollow forms and wnderful bowls some of us have to make more mundane items to put a crust on the table LOL. This is a navajo sppindle. Used for spinning yarn or wool and traditionally used siting cross legged on the floor (I am led to believe) It has a 30" sycamore shaft and a 5 1/2" whorl in some type of mahogany.It spins well fortunately, sometime when these are made the darn thing goes a bit off centre and won't spin accurately but got it right this time.
Pete