You hand me 50 cowrie shells, I give you a head of cattle.

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

Upon his chest hung a medallion decorated with cowrie shells.

Or even a system based on cowrie shells or maybe bubble gum.

From its tubular bottom piece hang strings of cowrie shells.

The Africans have treated cowrie shells like money for hundreds of years.

Instead, the children lagged when it came to their capacity to walk quickly and crack open large cowrie shells.

The eyes are created using cowrie shells with a bitumen pupil.

Taxes on slaves were mostly paid in cowrie shells.

These vessels were found filled with cowrie shells, the hard currency of the day.