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Fig. 19

From: Making the most of scarce biological resources in the desert: Loptuq material culture in Eastern Turkestan around 1900

Fig. 19

Loptuq protective amulet made of camel wool yarn. “The evil spirits must be afraid of camels. The mullah priest [prayer leader] tied eight knots on the string, then gave it to the boy to wear around his neck”, Georg Söderbom noted. Collected by Georg Söderbom in Charchak at Kum-darya during the Hedin expedition in May 1934 (Hedin-Bendix Collection, Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm)

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Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

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