in the Australian Western Desert, the Aranda bear churinga or tsurinja, a type of relic
"smoothed pieces of wood or stone inscribed with a totemic emblem. The same objects could also embody legal title to those lands"
> from David Graeber and David Wengrow's Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021)
> tagged with #property, #objects, # tribalism
> created October 3, 2024 at 11:57:38 AM
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