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Amulets of this kind were knotted into the forehead hair of male children.
knotted into their forehead hair. After the first successful hunt, the hair was shorn as a sign of transition and
the hair was shorn as a sign of transition and participation in male society, so that the amulet
was also removed. Only a few pieces of this extremely rare amulet are known worldwide.
The amulet from the collections of the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum has been on permanent loan to the National
indefinite loan to the National Ainu Museum in Shiraoi on Hokkaido.
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