The color, vibrancy and texture of Africa is on display at the Chicago Field Museum in the exhibit "Africa Fashion." ...

While well-known by West Africans, these styles were previously less common among Black women in America ... The hair can then be adorned with cowrie shells, like the Natural Cowrie Shell Braid ...

The cowrie, a type of marine snail, has very colourful shells which were used as money. It seems that it wasn’t just the colours that made the shell appealing - its small size and durability ...

1,200 BC: Cowrie Shells The first use of cowries, the shell of a mollusc that was widely available in the shallow waters of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, was in China. Historically, many ...