Bidspirit auction | Guna Shamanic Animal Claws and

Guna Shamanic Animal Claws and Teeth - A six-piece collection of traditional zoo-pharmacopoeia elements from the Guna (Kuna/Cuna) culture of Panama. This fascinating grouping includes teeth, claws, and a calcified marine element, used in sympathetic and preventative magic. Along with the lot is a typed statement describing necklaces of shells or animal teeth worn for fertility or virility.  And in fact, the four lighter-colored pieces have small holes for threading.  The ”case” referred to in the typed statement is no longer here.  We are selling these items as found, loose.   The longest piece is 3.25” long.  See photos for condition and details of these antique specimens. Provenance: From the private estate collection of Captain Kit S. Kapp (1926–2013), noted American explorer, ethnologist, and cartographer. Gathered during his historic maritime and ethnographic expeditions to the San Blas Islands and Darién region of Panama between 1961 and 1972.