Ruth Phillips remarked of this example, “I’ve never seen anything quite like it. The two images at the ends look like they could be turtles to me[,] and the birchbark backing obviously suggests a Great Lakes or northern Great Lakes origin. But the letters don’t mean anything to me[,] I’m afraid[,] and it’s hard to know what it could have been intended for [—] possibly some kind of offering for use on a church altar by Christian Aboriginal people? Wampum belts with lettering on them were, as I’m sure you know, used on mission church altars in 17th[-]century Quebec, and woven beadwork became a kind of replacement for wampum in certain areas.”