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The pictured item is 20 inches long.
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Pictured is a folk art box with a sliding top, polychrome decorated with burnished rondel designs, footed, with a fin on the lid.
If you count the holes, the number is incorrect for a cribbage board and at 20 inches long it would be a very long cribbage board. It is Hors d’oeuvres on toothpicks holder. Think cubes of cheese on toothpicks.
Seems like it might be an incense holder/burner. Might be able to store it if the side slides open.
A First Peoples/ Native people’s cribbage board.
Toothpick holder
Is it Cribbage?
I think it might be a cribbage board
A tally board?
My first look made me think it is some sort of music maker such as a harmonica
Hors d’oeuvres Server. Hors d’oeuvres were placed on tooth picks then in the holes.
I also get the impression it’s a cribbage or other game board, but a folk art version, maybe made from scrap wood.
An incense burner?
I think it looks like some kind of game, maybe cribbage board?
cribbage board?