NY Cowrie Love

A fusion of celebrated global culture.  Enjoy your favorite quality New York Yankee Baseball Cap intentionally adorned with cowrie shells.  Cowrie shells have many symbolic meanings, including wealth, fertility, protection, and power across various cultures, especially West & East African cultures.

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Cowrie shells have held cultural, economic, and ornamental significance in various cultures. 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 Indian Malabar coast, in Borneo and on other East Indian islands, in Maluku in the Pacific, and in various parts of the African coast from Ras Hafun to Mozambique. Cowrie shell money was important in the trade networks of Africa, South Asia, and East Asia.