And so the Makua chief gives him a cowrie shell encrusted basket. And he reaches down before he hands it over and he puts soil from Mozambique in the basket. And the Makua chief says, "I'm ...

We turned on our headlamps, and our senses were assaulted by a rich array of objects: chunks of Victorian brick and coal, oyster shells, fragments of 17th-century brown-and-blue potsherds from the ...

A beautiful hand-painted Chinese bottle vase, a painting of roses by the French ‘fleuriste’ Raoul M. De Longpré (1843-1911), and an impressive African Dan Guere mask with cowrie shells and bronze ...

Please trace what is traditional and what is modern in her choice of art materials in the context of the present exhibition -- cowries and shells? A. I think, for me, everything is traditional and ...

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