Beyond wearable items, South African beadworkers lent their handiwork to a variety of hand-held implements. The pair of objects presented here are handsomely decorated with diamond and floret motifs in a predominantly blue palette. With their blunted, tapering iron heads, their use is somewhat ambiguous. Very similar examples are held in both the National Museum of Scotland and the British Museum and are described in those collections as “spears,” but we believe them to be a kind of dance wand and/or strigil (oil scraper).