cowrie

I thought I'd go back to the hotel and use the last of my cowrie to get another room for the night.

The cowrie filled a need for small change among the poorest people of the world.

The playing order is decided by each player throwing the cowries.

In the living cowries mantle and foot are well developed.

Cowries were formerly used as means of exchange in India.

Live cowries were placed in pits, then removed weeks later.

Cowries have often been considered to be symbols of female fertility.

These cowries usually live in shallow waters under large rocks.

Six cowrie shells are used to determine the amount to move the players' pieces.

And there are fifty varieties of cowrie under those rocks.

In the early 1900's the cowries began to disappear from international trade.

The mantle of the living cowries is white and completely covered by small brown spots.

The Africans have treated cowrie shells like money for hundreds of years.

These vessels were found filled with cowrie shells, the hard currency of the day.

One day he brought a big speckled cowrie for me to inspect and throw back.

You hand me 50 cowrie shells, I give you a head of cattle.

If he could find a man to navigate the Cowrie he would leave us in a minute.

In the living cowries the mantle is transparent, with short white papillae.

But we have nothing but fish and cowrie shells to sell to the world outside.

They found that it rapidly killed and ate a number of different mollusks, including cowries.

In Nigeria, for example, an English penny was worth 120 cowries.

The baby's feet are tied with a string of cowries...

Instead of cowries, dice can also be used.

The eyes are created using cowrie shells with a bitumen pupil.

Supplies of cowrie reached West Africa in two main streams.