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Ammassalik, Greenland, wooden figurine called a "tupilek,"1934. Tupilek were intended for evil spells and were created by magicians to seek harm. These sculptures represent composite beings, monstrous, often half-humans, half-animals. This one of enthropomorphous aspect has teeth and eyes in bone. Tupilek made at the request of a Westerner no longer had magic value.