ANCIENT COWRIE
“I always feel like a queen when I wear Cowrie Shell Jewelry. In the 90’s I owned a cowrie shell choker and matching anklet. It was wrapped with black leather, I purchased it from the Ashby Flea Market, in Berkeley, California”
-Founder, LaToya McInnis
HISTORY OF THE COWRIE
GODDESS PROTECTION
The cowrie was the shell most widely used worldwide as shell money. It is most abundant in the Indian Ocean, and was collected in the Maldive Islands, in Sri Lanka, along the Malabar coast India, in Borneo and on other East Indian islands, and in various parts of the African coast from Ras Hafun to Mozambique.
Did you know that Cowrie shells helped Orixas and spiritual guides predict the future or the unknown? According to African legends, if you are attracted to cowrie shells you could be family to an ocean spirit of wealth and earth.