| 1. | The cowry was the shell most widely used worldwide as shell money.
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| 2. | These payments may take the form of shell money, food, pigs, cash, or other goods.
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| 3. | Most of the private ship owners from the constituency generated capital through shell money trade to build their ships.
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| 4. | They took shell money to Buin and traded it for cash and used the cash to build wooden boats.
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| 5. | One of the important things that girls learn at an early age too is how to make shell money.
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| 6. | In other regions, the bride price is paid in lengths of shell money, pigs, cassowaries or cash.
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| 7. | In the South Pacific Islands the species " Oliva carneola " was commonly used to create shell money.
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| 8. | One of the important things that girls learn at an early age too is how to make shell money ".
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| 9. | The Malaitans responsible for his death also were expected to pay relatives symbolic compensation in traditional shell money known as tafuliae.
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| 10. | Some form of shell money appears to have been found on almost every continent : America, Asia, Africa and Australia.
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