How To Use Cowrie In A Sentence
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`When the guest room's fixed up, I'd like to invite Howard and Karin to stay," she said, halting to pick up a cowrie shell.
OUT OF THE ASHES
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It was about the size of an orange, and it had eyes, a nose, and a smiling mouth made out of cowrie shells.
CIRCLE OF THREE: BOOK 10: MAKING THE SAINT
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They commemorate the currency of cowrie shells and beads, while suggesting the practice of a geomancy divined in the patterning of objects.
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Boulders are infested with black tree corals, mussels, cowrie shells, soft and hard corals and ascidians.
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Economists generally take for granted, if only tacitly, a teleological view of money's historical development, according to which it first takes the "primitive" form of mundane commodities such as cowrie shells and cacao seeds, and then advances through various stages, culminating in the national fiat monies most economies rely upon today. offers a spirited rebuttal to this naively "whiggish" perspective.
EconLog
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The cowrie concentrates its secretion along the sides of the mantle, forming a shell like a loosely clenched fist.
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The demonetization of cowries or manillas provoked strong protest from people whose savings were in these forms, to such a degree, indeed, that the British were eventually forced to offer conversion facilities.
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Sometimes the loaner borrowed silver, but paid cowries as interest; other times, he borrowed and repaid in cowries. 58
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
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Though it is difficult to estimate the degree, the disappearance of cowries and the presence of Han's wuzhuqian, a popular coin, in archaeological sites served as solid evidence.
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
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The cowrie is the most widely and longest used currency in history.
Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
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Boulders are infested with black tree corals, mussels, cowrie shells, soft and hard corals and ascidians.
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Porcelain After the Chinese began transforming kaolin clay into fire-hardened, gleaming white vessels about 1,800 years ago, the Italians dubbed the style porcellana , or porcelain, because it reminded them of shiny cowrie shells.
The China Factor
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To play the game, there are a variety of options, tamarind seeds, cowrie shells, beads, even small stones as affordability waxes and wanes.
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Because of their symbolic potency cowrie shells were often copied in precious metals.
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Archaeologists also found a profusion of cowries and roughly 800 large bronze relics.
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Their name for hundred is 'yha,' which means 'heap' -- that is, a heap of cowries.
Chatterbox, 1906
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They are in all manner of shapes, strings of mucuna and poison-beans; carved images stuck over with feathers and tassels; padlocks with a cowrie or a mirror set in them; horns full of mysterious "medicine;" iron - tipped poles; bones; birds 'beaks and talons; skins of snakes and leopards, and so forth.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2
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It was highly probable, too, that among the victims about to be transported were many who had been his own subjects; for these African potentates do not scruple to make merchandise of their own people, when cash or "cowries" run short, and their enemies have been too strong to be captured.
Ran Away to Sea
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In 1437, the Ming court decided to move cowries from the Nanjing treasury to Yunnan to pay salary to officials. 59 Three years later, the emperor ordered a shipment of 550,000 jin of cowries to Yunnan, again for salaries. 60 It should be pointed out that not all people liked to pay cowries to the state.
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
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These include Vasum, some photine buccinids, and some cypraeid cowries.
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The "Buyapart," valued at twenty-five cents, is a piece of cloth four inches square, covered thickly over with the small shells called cowries, sewed on.
Journal of an African Cruiser
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In 1411, Sien, the native chieftain of Xichidian, asked to use silver to pay taxes of 79,800 suo of cowries that had to be purchased from Lin'an. 61 Since cowries circulated in large numbers, a kind of cowry bank (bahang) emerged.
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
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Jabali said, ‘I don't have a single cowrie - and even if I had I wouldn't give it.‘
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The Cowries also run a fish filleting factory, and family contacts in Scrabster mean they sell a large range of fresh, unsmoked fish - from haddock and halibut to monkfish, mackerel and plaice.
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Table 6.2 provides a view of the decreasing value of cowries from the Yuan period to the end of the Ming Dynasty.
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
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Other coin shapes appear in bronze including knives and cowrie shells.
State Department Adds New Import Restrictions : Coin Collecting News
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We were fortunate in finding in the naval yard, a spar of the New Zealand cowrie pine (dammara) large enough for our bowsprit.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1
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We found tiny cowries on the soft corals and red spider crabs on the fans.
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According to this article, the cowries are called ‘Elegba's shells,’ and are distinct from Ifa's palm nuts.
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In one corner were piles of seashells attractively packaged and framed in boxes for hanging on the wall - cowries and mitre shells, murex and spider shells.
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Almost all of the RAC's cowries went to the Slave Coast, with few arriving at any other destination.
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The first currency to be used this way was something called the cowrie shell, a seashell common in the Pacific and Indian oceans that was used for trading primarily in Africa and Asia.
Not Your Parents’ Money Book
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A diviner is a mystic who can see into the spiritual realm, identifying witches and reading the past or predicting the future using spiritually significant objects, such as cowrie shells or, in this case, streaks of spilled alcohol.
Spellbound
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Others have padlocks, wooden pegs or cowrie shells attached to them for symbolic purposes.
Voodoo Still Casts Its Spell
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A garter of white cowrie shells encircled one leg just below the knee.
CHAPTER IX
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In Makarou they played calabashes ringed with cowrie shells, creating a wonderful sound to accompany this joyous, fast-paced dance.
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There are mushroom and staghorn corals, tiger cowries and batfish.
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At Abeokuta in Yoruba a man will send a symbolical letter in the shape of cowries, palm-nuts and other kernels strung on rice — straw, and sharp wits readily interpret the meaning.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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In addition to coconut shells, one can use cowries or other ocean shells, and even gunpowder.
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It is a wahine squid. shall now sing to you the song of the cowrie shell, the red cowrie shell that we used as a bait for the squid —
THE WATER BABY
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The article explains how cowries were exchanged for slaves and how East African gold entered Indian Ocean circuits.
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Thus it may have been gold, or silver, or copper, or a species of beautiful shells called cowries, or even a sort of mat called makutes, as in Congo; or ingots of iron, as in Senegal; or Negro slaves, as on the Guinea
The Science of Right
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It was about the size of an orange, and it had eyes, a nose, and a smiling mouth made out of cowrie shells.
CIRCLE OF THREE: BOOK 10: MAKING THE SAINT
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There are mushroom and staghorn corals, tiger cowries and batfish.
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There are numerous varieties of shrimps, juvenile morays, and a collection of shells including tiger cowries.
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Meanwhile I hunted for less time-consuming cowries, and raced around literally breathless with excitement for the entire time.
Archive 2009-01-01
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Because of their symbolic potency cowrie shells were often copied in precious metals.
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`When the guest room's fixed up, I'd like to invite Howard and Karin to stay," she said, halting to pick up a cowrie shell.
OUT OF THE ASHES
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“You were all so busy arguing, you barely noticed the cowrie shells in my hair!”
Cowrie Shells
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One day I happened to speak of my disappointment in failing to trade for a beautiful pair of orange cowries.
YAH! YAH! YAH!
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One night I was out fishing in the lagoon with Oti, the man who had been mulcted of the cowries.
YAH! YAH! YAH!
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Siamese, Englishmen and Yanks, who negotiate and this interchange of wares manage to conduct the bargaining in their various lingoes by the aid of a polyglot dialect of their own, chuckling over the dollars and cash and cowries as they rake them in with the impression that they are getting the best of the deal, when all the time, perhaps, they are being cheated themselves!
Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant
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Her hair was jet black that day, black as any night, so the cowrie shells woven into her braids looked like a sky full of stars.
Cowrie Shells
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Similar to India's rupee, the rufiyaa is the local currency now, but it was cowrie shells when explorers first arrived.
SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter
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Kalash women - who, legend says, are part-fairy, part-human - wear black gowns, and headgear decked out with cowrie shells, buttons and crowned with large colored feathers.
The Kalash Tribe Of Pakistan (PHOTOS)
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There were giant leopard cowries nestled in between coral heads.
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The other grade consists in covering the whole tusk with a succession of boldly carved grotesque figures -- human, animal, and symbolic -- giving the tusk a rich embroidered-like look, the thick ends being finished off with a suitable diamond pattern belt and the tip finished with an equally appropriate series of carvings in the shape of a mascle studded foolscap, or a capsule supported by elongated cowries.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921
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The tritons are in fair demand, and many tons of cowries are sent to Europe yearly, while the shipment of a thick-lipped strombus in one year to Liverpool amounted to 300,000.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882
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The cowrie concentrates its secretion along the sides of the mantle, forming a shell like a loosely clenched fist.
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There are some 1,000 relics of dazzling artistic and cultural value - bronzes and gold implements, jades, pottery, cowrie shell and elephant tusks, sacrificial objects, weapons and beads.
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Here butterfish can be seen feeding on mussels, and cowries are also in evidence.
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There were pins and needles, yarn and thread, that have taken the place of the wilder thorn and fibre; all kinds of small hardware; looking-glasses in lacquered frames; beads of sorts, cowries and reels of cotton; pots of odorous pomatum and shea-butter nuts; feathers of the plantain-bird and country snuff-boxes of a chestnut-like fruit (a strychnine?) from which the powder is inhaled, _more majorum_, through a quill; physic-nuts (_tiglium_, or croton), a favourite but painful native remedy; horns of the goat and antelope, possibly intended for fetish 'medicine;' blue-stone, colcothar and other drugs.
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
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The Cowries also run a fish filleting factory, and family contacts in Scrabster mean they sell a large range of fresh, unsmoked fish - from haddock and halibut to monkfish, mackerel and plaice.
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In one corner were piles of seashells attractively packaged and framed in boxes for hanging on the wall - cowries and mitre shells, murex and spider shells.
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As the cowries were a form of currency they were probably held sacred, and hence sewn on to clothes as a charm, just as gold and silver are used for ornaments.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
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In one corner were piles of seashells attractively packaged and framed in boxes for hanging on the wall - cowries and mitre shells, murex and spider shells.
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They are in all manner of shapes, strings of mucuna and poison-beans; carved images stuck over with feathers and tassels; padlocks with a cowrie or a mirror set in them; horns full of mysterious
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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I played lookout for my shutter-happy dive buddy, spotting cowries and posing with batfish as I did my safety stop.
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Drinkers could purchase a tot of liquor for as little as 1d or a few cowrie shells, and so it reached the poorer sections of Nigerian society.
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Here butterfish can be seen feeding on mussels, and cowries are also in evidence.
