"Cowrie" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... manioc, and near each of these I observed, for the first time, an ugly idol common in Londa—the figure of an animal, resembling an alligator, made of clay. It is formed of grass, plastered over with soft clay; two cowrie-shells are inserted as eyes, and numbers of the bristles from the tail of an elephant are stuck in about the neck. It is called a lion, though, if one were not told so, he would conclude it to be an alligator. It stood in a shed, and the Balonda ...
— Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa - Journeys and Researches in South Africa • David Livingstone
... Guinea savage wants to take passage aboard a Qantas airliner, what is the fare in cowrie shells? ...
— A World by the Tale • Gordon Randall Garrett |
