Fortune teller's tools. Nine mid-brown wooden sticks or canes of varying thicknesses tied up singly or in pairs with lengths of stiffened knotted leather. One of the strips of leather has sticks tied to each end; on the other lengths of leather, there are sticks only at one end, though there are knots in the leather at the other end as well.
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