pointing bone
noun
A bone, or an apparatus consisting of bones, used (especially by Australian Aborigines) to bring about the death or illness of the person at whom it is pointed.
Origin
Early 20th century; earliest use found in Baldwin Spencer (1860–1929), biologist and anthropologist.
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- Permo-Pennsylvanian
- Permo–Carboniferous