Image caption, A 19th Century illustration shows cowrie shells being used as money ... but in its earliest days, it went big and extravagant too. Made from mulberry bark, these large sheets ...

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and holding a staff made from cowry shells. Regional High Priest of Voodoo Daagbo Hounon says voodoo has been unfairly judged by outsiders over the years He is a big man with a booming voice and ...

Taking the form of a seven-metre-high cowrie shell cast from bronze, the walk-through sculpture is a reference to the shells which hold cultural and spiritual significance to many, but became a ...

Big, beefy, and self-assured ... topped with “antennae” made from sticks and cowrie shells, dot the rural landscape. “Two made it very clear, ‘We kill,’ and promised after I sent ...

This is a big moment for Hampton, a city with a large African American ... has yielded little aside from tools, pottery fragments and cowrie shells that may be connected to Angela. Historians say ...

"My decor features high-end furniture such as a Sonoma Butterscotch sofa alongside unique finds such as a cowrie shell wall ...

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The 40th iteration of the MTV Video Music Awards took place on Wednesday (Sept. 11) at the UBS Arena in Elmont, New York, awarding the best and most popular music of the year. Guests took the black ...

Replacing the statue of slave trader Robert Milligan, The Wake is a sculpture by the artist Khaleb Brooks, which takes the ...

Which would be appropriate, since the Drinking Gourd is another name for the constellation of the Big Dipper, which ... which Overstreet has suggested include both cowrie shells, used as currency in ...