“There are stories told through jewel adornments and special trims, with symbolism in baobab flower motifs and natural materials like cowrie shells and mother-of-pearl buttons.” The designer also ...

But in ancient times many would have thought of snails. Money cowrie (Monetaria moneta) shells were used as currency 3,000 years ago. National Museum of Natural History The aptly named Monetaria ...

Visuals outside a hotel where Pakistani shells dropped.(Visuals deferred by unspecified time) Pakistani drones intercepted in six locations in J&K, Punjab's Pathankot What Is The Ideal Age ...

Oyster shells are bulky and plain, but the treasures they hold go beyond their tasty meat and beautiful pearls. One company in Hong Kong is turning them into materials for constructing buildings.

From Faith Ringgold’s visionary storytelling to Adam Pendleton’s poetic protest, these presentations are sure to move both heart and mind. Spring is often a season of rebirth—but in museums ...

She points to the historical Marshallese stick charts, made of coconut strips and cowrie shells, her ancestors used to record sea data and voyage safely. Indigenous peoples in unincorporated US ...

Fellow co-chair Lewis Hamilton donned a jaunty ivory tuxedo with a cropped jacket, a matching beret and cowrie shell embellishment ... departures from the Mark Hotel and will stream the gala ...

Elsewhere, there's a contemporary, glittering ensemble by British designer Grace Wales Bonner, made of crushed silk velvet and embroidered with crystals and the cowrie shells historically used as ...

Embroidered with tiny milk-colored cowrie shells, crystals and glass pearls and paired with a bold gold-plated brass headpiece adorned with glittering Swarovski crystals, the ensemble is both ...

A Bwami Society headdress from the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, made of plant fiber, cowrie and oyster shells, warthog tusk. (Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art ...