| Almost all of the RAC's cowries went to the Slave Coast, with few arriving at any other destination. |
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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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| Archaeologists also found a profusion of cowries and roughly 800 large bronze relics. |
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| There are numerous varieties of shrimps, juvenile morays, and a collection of shells including tiger cowries. |
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| Here butterfish can be seen feeding on mussels, and cowries are also in evidence. |
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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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| In addition to coconut shells, one can use cowries or other ocean shells, and even gunpowder. |
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| Among their patterns, these bagh include chains of small white squares representing stylized cowries. |
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| We found tiny cowries on the soft corals and red spider crabs on the fans. |
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| There were giant leopard cowries nestled in between coral heads. |
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| These include Vasum, some photine buccinids, and some cypraeid cowries. |
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| Unoka was, of course, a debtor, and he owed every neighbour some money, from a few cowries to quite substantial amounts. |
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| On the white sand, a vender had laid out a blanket with cowries, coral fragments, and turtle shells. |
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| She pokes out cowries from the reef platform and mud flats using sharp sticks and iron hooks. |
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| This hat was most likely part of a king's elaborate costume that would have featured even more cowries and beads, and weighed upwards of 80 kg. |
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| Its pointed hairstyle is covered with dark blue and red cloth decorated with cowries. |
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| There are mushroom and staghorn corals, tiger cowries and batfish. |
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| The masks are made from sacred wood and usually decorated with cowries and red and black seeds. |
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| Damselfish flickered like sparks through antlered growths of acropora, while circular microatolls of porites coral were studded with cowries, cone shells and sky-blue linckia starfish. |
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| That her relatively small grave contained 468 bronze objects, 775 jades, and more than 6,880 cowries suggests how great the wealth placed in the far-larger royal tombs must have been. |
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| Specifications: calabash in the shape of a hollowed bottle gourd, three different types are available: with cowries, with glass pearls, with dried roots. |
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| Clams, cowries, and various snails and conches were collected, generally by women and children, along the reefs or shorelines and in shallow waters. |
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| By contrast, the rarest and costliest volutes, cones, cowries, and rock shells live only in deep water and are obtained by dredging or straining or through the efforts of fishermen who haul them in with their catch. |
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