A challenge ... what would this be?

[fernando]

Originally Posted by roanoa

Let's avoid making silly comments about religious practises, such as Holy Communion, which I for one take quite seriously...

No need to be fundamentalist, roanoa . We are joking here; considering a good faith piece of humor a silly coment, it's a remark that deserves no better classification .

Originally Posted by roanoa

...Having said that, I believe this is an Ethiopian SISTRUM. It is missing the op part with the metal disks.

I find it very hard to be a sistrum, and i don't think it is missing any attachement; there is no marks sugesting so.
BTW, did you know that the sistrum, provenant from the egiptian cult to Isis, was forbidden in the VI century Concilium?
So true that it maintained its existence with Copta Christianism until present days.
Fernando