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!!).