Originally posted by galia
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I think that anything directly related to plants and animals is more widely understandable if you come from a place where there are similar plants and animals.
As in this case :
Unless you know your basics in ornithology, you won't identify the bird, and it is quite the same for the furs. But does that really matter ? Would it be different with fox furs and the head of a crow ? No - because this kind of sacred relation to animal materials does not belong to our culture anyway. We even tried our best to negate it, or at least to keep it at a reasonable distance. You could even use pigeons and stray cats, for that matter : that would exactly look as outlandish.
Also, our culture is over-informed about so many things... we are probably not a good example of a sheltered culture (I mean in some ways we are, but we are very aware of images from many foreign, places)
In that sense we are still sheltered - not because until now we have lived in the deepest aeras of the rainforest, but because of our certitude to understand almost anything.
A little off-topic maybe ? Sorry for that.
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