Global phenomenon, local varieties -- The Maldives: procurement and export -- India: in the beginning -- Southeast Asia: intra-Asian interactions -- Yunnan: an Indian influence in the Southeast ...

When the spiraled white shell of a precious wentletrap was sold at auction in 1750, the highest bidder was none other than the Holy Roman Emperor, who shelled out no less than 4,000 guilders for the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Money cowries (Monetaria moneta) retrieved from the São Bento. Mudzunga Munzhedzi (2019). KwaZulu-Natal Museum In the archaeology ...

When most people hear the word cowry, they immediately conjure up images of money and old rituals. Cowries, however, aren't just another form of currency or a traditional activity; they are much more.

Cowries have played important symbolic and ritual roles in Yoruba culture, apart from their role as a medium of exchange. Because cowries served as money and represented wealth, it is quite natural ...

IN NATURE of August 10 (p. 488) there was a notice of an article by Mr. C. B. Moore (published in the Journal of the Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia, 2nd Ser., part ii., vol. xvi.) on the ...

THE question of the pre-Columbian use of the money-cowrie in America is fully discussed by me in an exhaustive memoir, dealing with the use of cowries as cult objects in the Old and New Worlds, which ...