Ross This is a good one for messing with the Anthropologist heads in about 10 years!!! Leslie To give the ball a little push, i have a confession myself. When i was in Labrador trying to get a bit of "extreme shelling" in, i had plenty of time to spare because the Chlamys islandica trawler i went out on had almost no luck at all for the first 1.5 days, so they packed up shop and left me behind. I roamed the foothills of the Torngat Mountains from my base in Nain, and was constantly coming across the carefully constructed "Inukshuks" (ok, don't quote me on the spelling!), which are man-shaped cairns built by the Inuit to mark where they had been, and possibly to act as landmarks. One day, on a whim, i built my own - with a little "twist": i stowed about a dozen attractive Philippine, Indian, Floridan and Zanzibarican shells in the cracks and crannies of my own little pile of rocks. I can just imagine some Inuit, Dene or tourist coming across my Faux-Inukshuk and finding these curiously un-subarctic objects of natural history hiding in its innards.....of course if it is one of the multitudes of children i gave similar shells to on that trip, perhaps they will remember me, and wonder whatever happened to the strange Shell Man who promised to come back some day (and with any luck, i will!!).