Shell Money

beads, combined with Money Cowry shells and intricately applied on a thick cotton woven canvas.

center is made out of grey Money Cowry shells, carefully polished. The combination is seamlessly attached

Good string of early 20th century shell money or currency from Africa. The shells have a warm

A set of 8, probably African, Shell Money bracelets. For centuries, up until the mid-1800s, these

decorative and ceremonial purposes. The cowrie was the shell most widely used worldwide as Shell Money

A male necklace from the Asmat Village, Papua New Guinea. Tiny money cowrie shells seamlessly sewn

A gorgeous shell dish in the "money tree" pattern. NOTE: there are two available, priced

applied elements that include fish, crab, shells, money, gourds, leaves, ferns, butterflies, dragonfly and

Made from the shell of the Giant Mussel (Tridacna gigas). Used by the Abbekam people as money and

Ancient Near East, Holyland, Late Bronze Age, Deir Samit, Judea, ca. 1500 to 1250 BCE. A lovely limestone cosmetic dish presenting a hemispherical body with a flattened top and a dep...