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… directions, like migration routes and water sources. This one points to the creek below. It has all the distinguishing traits including irregularities in the wood, seen just above my finger. These notches were created by the deer-hide straps holding the sapling in shape, and the “nose” made by lashing a corner into the bent sapling and planting it back in the ground. Wonderful and sacred to me.

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