Australian Aboriginal Wooden Clapsticks with Pyrographed Decoration - A Pair vintage painting but would also work great

but would also work great as vases or small planters--or are just great sculptural objects on a shelf

pale yellow

stacked with cookbooks  and perhaps with favorite recipes stuffed inside the drawer

and wonderful woolen clothes

Australian Aboriginal Wooden Clapsticks with Pyrographed Decoration - A Pair vintage painting but would also work greatThese wooden clapsticks, or clappers, or singing sticks, make a terrifically satisfying clap when struck in addition to being wonderful objects that feel great in the hand. There is a fantastic variety of Australian Aboriginal clapsticks out there many decorated with burned designs like these, others painted and or carved. They have been used as percussive instruments for thousands of years, often in concert with the didgeridoo, a wind instrument of