Kaneke (also ganekhe) are the sacred ancestral objects — bound bundles, stones and heirloom valuables — in which the supernatural power of the patrilineage is held, and by extension the ancestral potency itself. Kept in the men's house and periodically anointed with pig grease, they concentrate the power of the lineage dead and stand at the centre of the ceremonies that secure fertility, health and success in war. The kaneke mediate between the living patriline and its ancestors, and their handling is hedged about with the taboo the Dani call wusa. Sources treat them both as objects and as loci of an indwelling ancestral power, the two senses not being sharply separated in Dani thought.