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Billikens The original "billiken" was a small statue with the
inscription "Billiken--God of Things as They Ought to Be," patented by
Florence Pretz of Kansas City in 1908. The Buddha-like billiken was
adopted as an official "patron saint" of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific
Exposition in 1909. A traveler apparently brought one to Nome soon after,
where it was replicated in walrus ivory by Eskimo carvers as a souvenir to
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