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Originally Posted by Gustav
Just information regarding the item in #11.
That's actually a typical Javanese reins holder.
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Many things came to Indonesia from India and other counrties: Piso Podang pommel, Gulabhati handle, Borobudur, and, yes, even Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam.
It is certainly possible that these hooks might have been used as rein holders in Indonesia: they will work.
But as a rule, reins were held in place simply by putting them over the saddle pommel. This may be one of the reasons why Islamic saddles had tall pommels.
Here are Central Asian, Turkish and Afghani saddles.
But going back to the original thingamajig, it simply could not work as a sword or reins holder: engineering would not allow for it.