Win! 

I wonder how it attached? Is that a couple of small holes for sewing through at the upper left hand end?

Good post, mailemann!

Please forgive me but at first glance I thought it looked like a sling, but it seems like the holes are rather close together don't they?
It looks to me to be something that a lady might wear in her hair, with a skeewer through the holes to hold it in her hair. I could be wrong. but my wife has something like it that she wears.

Here is my reconstruction; oriented the same as the photo of the original above.

Hope you dont mind, I resized it a bit, interesting reconstruction, wanted to get a better look

Astonishing-- fixation method to avoid stretch, and leather tooling.

No problem, Long Arm ; if my tablet allowed it I would have done it myself.
I never saw a *photo* of the original ( thank you mailman ), but I did see a good line drawing of it - the same illustration is on another thread somewhere. The drawing clearly showed stitch holes at either end of the pouch, but the larger holes for the cords were farther into the body of the pouch than seemed to make sense. But the drawing ( and photo of the artifact ) provided a clue - the leather is pinched on either side, from the pouch ends to the cord holes, as if it was formed around the cords. So this is the method I came up with that answered the problem. I opted for cords made from a standard three strand flat braid in waxed hemp rather than leather because, after all the pouch is preserved, but no leather thongs - if both parts were leather, both should have been preserved within the same deposition. Not necessarily, but likely.
   The only other puzzle now that I see the photo is that the tooling appears to be only incised lines in the artifact photo, but in the line drawing the tooled design is clearly shown as *double* lines throughout, indicating that the tooled design is raised above the surface. So, I followed the illustration, and I can tell you that incising and tooling lines that are only about 1/32 inch ( 1 mm ) apart is difficult and nerve wracking.
      How does it throw? Well, it propels missles down range - I truely am not qualified to give a good assessment, being an indifferent slinger at best. More inclined towards ancient Celtic/Irish weapons - javelins and darts myself.
      I am planning on going to the Sling meeting in southcentral Pennsylvania later this month and I will be certain to bring this sling along.