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    Dec 03, 2020 1 minute
    BY JARRETT A. LOBELL

    ive hundred years ago, someone stood in a rocking boat or on a swaying raft, grasped the ropes threaded through holes on the sides of a stone box, and lowered the box, a type of bracelet worn by Inca noblemen on their right forearms, and that it may originally have been placed atop the camelid as a representation of a llama caravan and its cargo.

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