Bone Talisman

Two pale lozenges, each cinched by a woven black band with a stub on top.

This is a bone and cotton talisman. Talismans are objects worn or carried for protection or good fortune, and they appear in many cultures, taking forms from carved bone to knotted cord. A matched pair of pointed oval forms in creamy ivory colour, each marked with a few faint inked lines. A dark, coarsely woven sleeve wraps the middle of each, and a short square tab rises from the top. It is 1.5 inches long, 0.25 deep and 1 high.

Neatly belted and ready to go anywhere in tandem.