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[smokingwreckage]

Turtle bone buckler is an Actual Thing. I had trouble turning up a quick reference because of WoW spam,

but: "Mr W J McGee has discovered definite survivals
of this stage of industrial development. The favorite
Seri awl is the mandible of a bird, and even when the
material is hard wood the implement is shaped in imita-
tion of the natural organ ; the war shield is a turtle shell
or pelican pelt"

from: http://www.archive.org/stream/annualreportofbu21smit/annualreportofbu21smit_djvu.txt

I just think it's interesting that the random mismatching of materials came up with a historical artifact!