hanko
n.— «They knew that the container had been shipped from South Africa, but they didn’t know precisely where the ivory—532 tusks and more than 42,000 small cylinders called hankos—came from.» —“La Isabela’s Final Failure” by Henry Fountain New York Times Feb. 28, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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