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{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
Perhaps influenced me in trying to get other people, other students, to work in the Guerra area later on. During this period, also, the 1940s, I got interested in the question of the use of yolks and palmate stones, and atchas, and wrote several papers on the subject.

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{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
I can't remember quite how this started, how this interest got started, but it was new, I think to seeing several figurines with yolk-like objects around the waist of the figures.

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{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
And it led me on to think about the importance of the Balgain in Middle America. It seems to be one of the great obsessions in all of Middle America. And was of such importance that the, the Balgain spread to areas outside of the borders of Mesoamerica.

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{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
Anyhow, the evidence seems to be pretty good that yolk, stone yolks, or yolk-like objects, uh, were worn in the Balgain, or in some way related to the Balgain. And also that the stone atchas and palmas were somehow used in the same way.

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{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
There's been a great deal of reluctance to accept this idea that the use of stone yolks in the Balgain. It's easy to see how that is. But there can be no question in my mind that
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