Please help and tell me what this thing is!! No one has been able to identify it!

[Firedancintracy]

This is the strangest little thing I have ever seen. My friend gave me this years ago, he dug it up on his family's settlement approximately around 40 years ago. It is about 2 1/2" long and it appears to have been "tatooed" as the ink designs are not lying on the surface. It is solid on one end and one tiny deliberate hole on the other. As you can see it also has designs carved into it. Any help in enlightining me on what this is, and what it was used for would be greatly appreciated.

 

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[unclemac]

common guys....there is no way this is bone or coral or ivory or anything BUT ceramic. I mean LOOK at the two ends...what bone is closed like that on a perfectly round section and then hollow in the middle? this is a ceramic piece with punched in holes both round and heart shaped...and unless i am mistaken aren't the spirals all exactly the same too?

there is NO native american connection to this object.

 

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