#Artphotography - "COWRY SHELL"

in art •  7 years ago 

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This is an image of a cowry shell, it's a small sea animal with a soft body and a brightly colored shell.
This cowries was served as a currency in the past as money in parts of Africa and Southern Asia, it's highly polished, usually brightly colored shell of a marine gastropods.
This cowry was a money spent in the past, and it's mostly used in African countries by t7he traditional rulers and serves as a powerful tools for rituals.
It was also a money spent in the past in moistly Africa and some parts Asia, but with the helps of technology it's no more in vogue and it has became obsolete.

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I thought they are potatoes.

wow nice pic