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 Phallocrypt or necklace? 
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Read about the koteka and lonkalonka on WIKIPEDIA. The description of the lonkalonka as a phallocrypt hung from male genitalia seems very peculiar, as I have seen an image of one with a twisted thong made of human hair. But to me it seems more like a necklace or ornament for the upper arm, as the thong is too short to get around the waist, and how it could be hung from the genitalia and called a phallocrypt, is beyond me. I have never seen pictures of aborigines wearing these lonka lonkas, so how do you know this is a phallocrypt? Someone who can explain how they are fixed to the body or lead me to an image so I am no more in doubt...
Are there pictures anywhere of the ornaments of jade and hardstone hung from the genitalia in South America, in other words, is this a fact? Nothing surprise me  about garments, but seeing is believing... 
The koteka, on the other hand , has got an historian/entropologist  to suggest that they could have been worn by people here in Scandinavia during the bronze age due to the many rock carvings of males with axes and phallos. And why not..?
Thank you.
Steinar Ådland

I see what you refer to in the Koteka article.  (It might have been better to put this comment on the discussion page there, by the way.)  The information you refer to was added by an anonymous editor who apparently could himself use some editing . . . ""lonkalonka"" refers to the type of carved and decorated shell, not the type of item the shell is made into.  I have seen a picture of one of these with a 23"" ""strap"" attached, so I'm not ready to give the anonymous editor the lie just yet.  I'm moving a copy of this discussion to the relevant talk page in the hope that your question will be better addressed there.  "