The two-holed amulet was a common fetish among prehistoric Maine tribes, but the rayed sun and the Eye of God on the reverse were more common in Europe. Nearly identical glyphs have been found cut into lava flows on Grand canary in the Canary Islands off the African west coast. The people of the Canaries are believed to have drifted southward in boats or rafts from Europe or, more specifically, from Portugal, on the Gulf current perhaps 10,000 years ago. 

The two holes in the amulet were bored to place a thong for draping the amulet about the neck, but the glyphs and symbols are, for the moment, outside the experience of Richard Will, the archaeologist from Castine, Maine who has been studying the find.