It seems to be a CD tower.

Sometimes I see something with a function so specific but so briefly useful that it makes me wonder what archeologists some centuries from now are gonna guess it was for.

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This a ceremonial artifact used in the Great Lakes region of the former US during their numerous cheese rituals. It was used to grate enormous blocks of cheese, and the resulting grated cheese was used in various initiations and executions.

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That makes sense.

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