My brother has a housefull of stuff made in various places which has ended up in Central Illinois.

He also has some stuff he got in Vietnam, among it an AK-47 rifle, a lamp used in the VC tunnels, and other war "souvenirs." My other brother has a Huk beheading sword he got in the Philipines and a Siberian wolf skin he got in Thailand -- while in the Air Farce.

If you excavate their houses you might wonder about, say, the wolf skin or the Montagnard crossbow. But...it proves a connection, in some way, with another culture. As far as I know, neither brother has been in Siberia....