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for nonpayment of debt, meaning: “You have given me the back altogether; after 
we have come to an arrangement about the debt you have owed me, I will also turn 
my back against you.” 
Fig. 480.—Jebu complaint. 
The same authority, p. 299, describes Fig. 481: 
It consists of two cowries face to face, followed by one above facing upwards, and 
is a message from a creditor to a bad debtor, meaning: “ After you have owed me a 
debt you kicked against me; I also will throw yon off, because I did not know that 
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you could have treated me thus.’ 
Fig, 481.—Jebu complaint. 
Prof. Anton Schrifner (a) describing Fig. 482, says: 
On this plank the cuts marked } signify the number of reindeer required. Oppo- 
site these cuts are placed the hand marks, a, of various Samoyeds of whom the reindeer 
Fic, 482.—Samoyed requisition. 
are demanded, At the bottom is found the official mark, c, of the Samoyed chief who 
forwarded this board to the various Samoyed settlements in place of a written 
communication, 
