A fowl could be purchased for a large cowrie shell, and a goat for a yard of calico.
Their heads were ornamented with really tasteful arrangements of cowrie shells and ostrich feathers, the latter often hanging down their backs in graceful folds.
The island, with its valuable cowrie fishery, was ceded to Portugal in 1649.
Skins served as a bed, and the furniture consisted of a large earthen vase made to contain the maize or manioc flour; the cowrie baskets and knapsacks having also been deposited inside.
In front of the tent, with a couple of Madras cowrie baskets at his feet, busily engaged sponging out a rifle, Captain Hughes was seated.
The seeds of discontent were, therefore, already planted in the camp of the mutineers of the Cowrie at the north edge of Jungle Island.
If he could find a man to navigate the Cowrie he would leave us in a minute.
If we do not hurry the Cowrie will be standing out to sea by the time we reach her anchorage.
The day before they sighted Jungle Island and discovered the little land-locked harbour upon the bosom of which the Cowrie now rode quietly at anchor, the watch had discovered the smoke and funnels of a warship upon the southern horizon.
The crew of the Cowrie rushed above armed with revolvers, cutlasses, and the long knives that many of them habitually wore; but the alarm had come too late.
It was three days later that the Cowrie fell in with H.
The first intimation the watch had that there was another craft within a thousand miles of the Cowrie came when he saw the head and shoulders of a man poked over the ship's side.
Besides, since there is not a cowriein the master's jacket, what else is he to do?
It has been suggested by one of the British archaeologists that the necklaces of perforated cowrie shells and the red pigment found among the remains of early man in Britain were used by children.
He wore a number of anklets and armlets of polished wire, a broad beaded collar, heavy earrings, and a sumptuous robe of softened goatskins embroidered with beads and cowrie shells.
One of them carried a battered old canvas steamer chair; one a fan of ostrich plumes; and one a long gourd heavily decorated with cowrie shells.
They were so laden with savage riches as to be almost concealed beneath the strings of cowrie shells and bands of beads.
Beyond, drawn up on the beach, he could see the big war-canoes, with high and fantastically carved bows and sterns, ornamented with scrolls and bands of white cowrie shells.
Like a king's palace, it is adorned by the tails ofcowrie deer, [77] and protected by troops of fierce elephants.
It's called the divination of the sixteen cowrie shells.
Atiba sat motionless in the graying light, crosslegged, at the edge of the mud seat nearest the door, and studied the sixteen cowrieshells as they spun across the reed tray that lay before him.
Listening intently to catch the soft cadence of the verses, she repeated them silently, knowing they meant the cowrie shells had been cast.
If a New Guinea savage wants to take passage aboard a Qantas airliner, what is the fare in cowrie shells?
The tribesman would probably wonder why the Chief of the English Tribe kept cowrie shells under his hat.
Their hair is plaited over the forehead and cowrie shells and brass ornaments like buttons are often attached in it.
Widows and girls may only wear the bluish-white beads without cowries, and a remarried widow may not have any yellow beads, but she can have one cowrie on her necklace.
He is decorated with ochre-coloured rags and cowrie shells.
His armlets and anklets were made of polished cowrie shells reaching quite above the wrists and ankles.
He wore a broad belt decorated with cowrie shells and beads.
By the beaux of the caravan, unqualified homage was paid to certain coquettes, who carried milk jars curiously wrought of palm leaves, and studded with manifold cowrie shells.
Their long dark tresses, elaborately greased, were plaited into thin cords with tassels at the extremity, and interwoven about the head with a band of coloured thread, to which was suspended a distinguishing cluster of cowrie shells.
Her favourite ornaments were cowrie and other sea-shells.
She removed her double bracelets and anklets of cowrie shells, and the brass and copper bangles from her arms and legs.
As he remarks: "The great advantage of the use of the cowrie is that forgery is excluded, as it cannot possibly be imitated.
The boy then presses a cowrie on the ground with his little finger, and the girl has to take it away, which she easily does.
The girl in her turn holds a cowrie inside her clenched hand, and the boy has to remove it with his little finger, which he finds it impossible to do.
Somewhat resembling the Tiger Cowrie is the Cypræa pantherina (Fig.
In some parts of India and Africa a very small species of Cowrie passes as current money.
Brass bracelet, ornamented with brass representations of rows of cowrie shells, in groups of nine.
Head-dresses of attendants with ornaments of cowrie shells.
He has a high helmet, ornamented with representations of cowrie shells of nearly the same form as that of the central figure.
On the projection on which the forehead is intended to rest is a double row of cowrie shells, bound round.
Head-dress of the same form as the other, ornamented with cowrie shells.
The figure has a leopard's skin on front and back, ornamented with representations of cowrie shells.
This necklace is made of white cowrie shells varying in size from half an inch to an inch long, each of which has its convex side ground away, so as to show on one side the untouched mouth of the shell and on the other an open cavity.
When in full dress the warrior further sports a hollow iron knee bell, connected with the belt by a string of cowrie shells or beads.
A dozen large loops of coloured beads strung through the ears, and various strings and necklaces of beads, cowrie shells, and the like finish them out in all their gorgeousness.
Adding cowrie to cowrie he brings together lakhs and crores.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cowrie" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: scallop; shell; wampum
