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Kina (Papua New Guinea) originated from shell money used for centuries by people along their coast, the cedi of Ghana means `small shell' after the former use of the cowrie shell for money.

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Begum `high-ranking Muslim lady' derives ultimately from Eastern Turkic, while cowrie `a type of sea shell' comes from Tamil or Malayalam kavati via Hindi kauri or kaudi .

Porcelain was borrowed from Italian porcelaine `cowrie shell,' from a similarity of the surfaces of each.

Among the advances of the era were the introduction of astronomical calculations, chariots, the use of cowrie shells as a unit of exchange, the construction of palaces and temples, and the refinement of table manners through the introduction of chopsticks.

Paul preaching at Athens, a rococo presentation clock on the mantelshelf, flanked by a couple of miniatures, a pair of crockery dogs with baskets in their mouths, and, at the corners, two large cowrie shells.

Cowrie-shell divination is derived from the Ifá divination practiced by Yoruba people priests in Africa.

Some tourist sets use cowrie shells.

"Not all of the ""bones"" are actually bones, small objects may include cowrie shells, stones, strips of leather, or flat pieces of wood."

Six cowrie shells are used to determine the amount to move the players' pieces.

A player's pieces move around the board based upon a throw of six or seven cowrie shells (a sea snail), with the number of shells landing aperture upwards indicating the number of places to move.

The use of cowrie shells however is claimed to have come from the Middle East, and to have entered Africa some centuries earlier.


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