Urban Mojo
Most aboriginal cultures, including this country's own native Americans, have adorned themselves with jewelry made of various animal parts such as feathers, fur, leather, claws, bones, or teeth. These served as talismanic charms and, in the form of the archetypal "bear-claw necklace," gave a hunter/warrior the spirit and strength of the animal whose disabled "weapons" he was wearing.
My contemporary necklace is made of one hundred handgun triggers...