A Swedish nine-tailed cat PISKA, 20th century.

Knotted in cordage and partly covered in blue textile. Length approx. 160 cm

Physical agony with naval punishment tools such as jocks and dew existed in the navy in older times, but also until the late 1930s for the shipwrights who served in the Skeppsgossekorps. However, the object in question is likely executed primarily as a decorative object and evidence of seafaring.