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Rossel Island Sign Language (212 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

have married in the traditional way, involving complex exchanges of shell money between kin, and have children, some of whom are deaf, so the sign system

Lau Lagoon (1,097 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

'salt-water people' as distinct from wane i tolo 'Bush people'. Malaitan shell-money, manufactured in the Langa Langa Lagoon, is the traditional currency

Chinese burial money (4,906 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

later clay versions of these coinages were also produced. Clay cowrie shell money (traditional Chinese: 泥貝幣; simplified Chinese: 泥贝币; pinyin: ní bèi bì)

Oroha language (1,236 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

saia: says to man (that) knows: "Noko "I waai'o reward you ana with ha'a shell money, poo, pigs, oko you ha'asaso make sun ro'u." again." Mane Man saia (that)

Rambutyo Island (867 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Melanesian and Micronesian ancestry and patrilineal descent rules operate. Shell money, sourced on islands to the north, was used as a means of exchange. Sago

Knobbed whelk (708 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Marine Station at Fort Pierce. Retrieved 2018-12-01. Knobbed Whelk: Shell Money Retrieved 2011-11-28. "Anatomy of the knobbed whelk". Archived from the

Financial transaction (1,361 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Retrieved 8 February 2022. Jan Hogendorn; Marion Johnson (1986). The Shell Money of the Slave Trade. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521541107

Maldives (17,038 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

2014. Hogendorn, Jan. The Shell Money of the Slave Trade. pp. 23–24. Hogendorn, Jan and Johnson Marion (1986). The Shell Money of the Slave Trade. African

Sulka language (1,618 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

‘blood’ ɨndiɨl ɨriɨl ‘yam’ tou sngu ‘coconut’ ksiɨ ges ‘speech’ rere rhek ‘shell money’ pek kirpik ‘ground’ mmie marhok ‘person’ mhel mia ‘road’ ngaelaut nghek

Telefol people (695 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Yolam House at Bultem and the Telefolip exists, and that is how shell money and other valuable items came to the Telefol. The Telefol defeated the

Malaita (5,234 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

depict movements of the boat and fish, and the birds overhead. Malaitan shell-money, manufactured in the Langalanga lagoon, is the traditional currency,

Melo broderipii (165 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

south pacific islands use the various types of Melo to make jewelry and shell money as well as canoe bailers. The large orange Melo pearls which are sometimes

Honiara Central Market (1,547 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and vegetable market (including fresh coconut water), which also sells shell money, and other local crafts such as palm-frond broomsticks, jewellery, coconut

Caroline Islands (2,998 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Yap are noted for possessing an unusual currency. Besides the ordinary shell money, there is a sort of stone coinage, consisting of huge calcite or limestone

Yele language (1,598 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Additionally, special registers and terms are used when discussing shell money (kêndapî), at a mortuary feast (kpaakpaa) and during songs. As a form

History of money (9,673 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Treatise on Money. Volume I, p. 13 Fauvelle, Mikael (31 March 2024). Shell Money: A Comparative Study (1 ed.). Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781009263344

Outline of Maldives (968 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Comparative Dravidian Grammar, p. 27-28 J Hogendorn and M Johnson, The Shell Money of the Slave Trade, p. 20-22 Ibn Batuta, Travels in Asia and Africa,

Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary (1,025 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

kanji 測 (measure) can be broken down into three segments 氵 (water), 貝 (shell money), and 刂 (knife). In such cases, the leftmost discrete element is treated

Napoleon Chagnon (3,401 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Napoleon A. (1970), "Ecological and Adaptive Aspects of California Shell Money", Annual Report of the UCLA Archaeological Survey, vol. 12, pp. 1–25

Kongo Civil War (2,446 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

stronger than ever with control of Luanda, source of Kongo's nzimbu shell money. More and more, Kongo had to rely on Dutch support, which was not as

List of currencies in Africa (1,039 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

central banks of Africa Johnson, Marion; Hogendorn, Jan S. (1986). The Shell money of the slave trade. African studies series. London New York Melbourne:

Klallam people (2,843 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

had given up bows and arrows for guns, that duck netting was common, shell money was still valued, and shamanism still practiced. One village he visited

Snohomish people (7,035 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Vancouver Island, in particular. A common currency used by the Snohomish was shell money, called dentalium or solax. While many tribes had to trade for shells

Farefare language (2,560 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

naafɔ - niigi nifo > nini weefo/yeho > wiiri/yiri yoofo > yũuni cowry shell > money rice grain > rice bovine(s) eye(s) horse(s) shea nut(s) - sĩfo > sĩm

Slavery (28,049 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

ISBN 978-0-415-21304-2. Hogendorn, Jan; Johnson, Marion (2003). The Shell Money of the Slave Trade. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-54110-7

Maria Schilder (444 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

ISBN 978-0-520-26772-5. Hogendorn, Jan; Johnson, Marion (2003-09-18). The Shell Money of the Slave Trade. Cambridge University Press. p. 162. ISBN 978-0-521-54110-7

Lenapehoking (3,626 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

meanings: the land that the Lenapes called their country, or 'land of the shell money' (wampum). Secaucus – 'black snakes'. Weehawken – 'place of gulls'. Whippany

Moro Movement (1,803 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

which is the HQ of the movement. This house stored valuables such as shell money baskets, traditional artefacts and other objects of significance in the

Yaka people (4,449 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

show respect to his authority.: 66 Tributes were also paid in ndzimbu shell money which was an early substitute for currency.: 37 Paramount chiefs are

Hindustani etymology (2,601 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(water vessel)", kapās (कपास کپاس) "cotton", kauṛī (कौड़ी کَوڑی) "cowrie (shell money)", ṭhes (ठेस ٹھیس) "wound, injury", jhaṉḍā (झंडा جھنڈا) "flag", mukkā

Anansi (16,602 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

peredwan packets of gold dust, a velvet pillow, two cloths, a wool blanket, shell money (to barter with ghosts), a sheep, and more palm-wine. They accepted his

History of slavery in the Muslim world (19,083 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

éthiopiennes, 1994, pp.187-88. Jan Hogendorn; Marion Johnson (1986). The Shell Money of the Slave Trade. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521541107

Yap Living History Museum (865 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

collection included educational materials, paintings and traditional shell money. In 2015 the museum welcomed visitors from the University of Hawaiʻi

William Henry Furness III (1,287 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

"Rai and Strings of Pearl-shell Money Presented to a Corpse at the Time of Burial," (1903), photograph by Furness. Illustration from Caroline Furness

Solomon Islands National Museum (1,384 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

function, but was looted and many important cultural artefacts are lost: shell money valuables were removed for local use; other objects were sold to overseas

Albert Buell Lewis (1,490 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

History, Anthropology of Design Series, no. 4: Chicago 1929 Melanesian Shell Money in Field Museum Collections. Field Museum of Natural History Publication

History of science and technology in Africa (23,610 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

major source of cowries in the trans-Saharan trade. In western Africa, shell money was usual tender up until the middle of the 19th century. Before the

Roanoke Region (3,231 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Roanoke River, which takes its name from the Algonquian word for the shell "money" found in the waters. In the mid-1770s, Scotch-Irish and German settlers

Religion in Yap (2,272 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Around this time, the deceased's siblings and clan members exchange shell money. After the burial, the kinfolk stay near the gravesite and mourn for

German colonial projects before 1871 (5,879 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

September 2017. Jan Hogendorn; Marion Johnson (18 September 2003). The Shell Money of the Slave Trade. Cambridge University Press. pp. 56–58. ISBN 978-0-521-54110-7

Sultanate of Maldive Islands (4,335 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

on 14 January 2021. Retrieved 28 November 2019. Hogendorn, Jan. The Shell Money of the Slave Trade. pp. 23–24. Mohamed, Naseema (2005). "Note on the