#cowrie shell

[aafrikan]

[jazou]

“Ancestors Always Watching” 🧿

WIP details update

she’s almost done!

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I got a lot to be mad about

[aworldofpattern]

Rapsody wearing custom Grace Jones gown by Saint Jermaine at the 2025 Grammys

'What if it took 13 artisans, 10 days, 2500 cowrie shells, 60 hours of hand sewing, 4 fittings, a chain stitcher, students from a Brooklyn nonprofit, and a Grammy winner to pull this off? Yeah, we wouldn’t believe it either!'

In African traditions, cowrie shells are believed to offer protection from evil.

The National Museum of African American History and Culture notes:

'Knowing that Africans used cowries as charms for protection, historians speculate the cowries may have been brought to America as talismans to resist enslavement.'

[afriblaq]

[faantasizee]

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[darknessthateatstheshadow]

*pick up rubbish* *gets cowrie*

I love Lady Aphrodites Sloshy water sounds

hehe sloshy…funny word

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[faithandarisadventures]

Seashell Map Natural History MuseumRoger Williams Park Providence, RI January 25, 2025