No, a Fanerisis has a much larger hook on the blade and the connecting block is on the other side of the handle and was much more sophisticated in design. Plus a Fanerisis always has a carved image of the water god on the blade and a geometric symbol an the shaft designating whether it's made for a right-hand or left-hand Wingwam Spider. This is really basic stuff, Walt. I can't believe you didn't know it.
The device is clearly a pultuk, in essence a sort of hockey stick, used by the Seminole Indians in what is now Florida. After they acquired horses from the Spanish, they developed a game very simliar to polo but played on horseback since the only relatively open spaces they had were flooded grasslands. The grass was cut back by the women to make an oval playing area about 200 yards long and 100 yards wide. The ball was about the size of a basketball but woven from reeds and sticks so it would float. The hook on the blade of the pultuk was slid into a thong loop around the horse's head to make it easier to transport.
The pultuk you found on your boat is a very crude copy. The originals were made of a single piece of wood and rather heavy, hence the need to hang one end of it from the horse on the way to and from the playing "field."
