Bundle Item Number: Ie315 a-c from the MOA: University of British Columbia
A bundle wrapped in red trade cloth (part a), bound with rattan (part b), and containing a fossilized animal (reptile?) mandible (part c) covered with red ochre and wrapped with matted marsupial fur.
Bundle is believed to have mystical power, bringing fortune to bearer in exchange, health, fertility, productivity, family affairs, etc. Stones of men who maintain moral, co-operative relations are kept together.
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