Cowry Shells: Fertility/Fecundity Symbols in Southern Calfiornia Iconography

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" Cowry Shells: Fertility/Fecundity Symbols in Southern Calfiornia Iconography "
Koerper, Henry C

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	940061
Doc. No	:	LA1z6919vc
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Koerper, Henry C
Title & Author	:	Cowry Shells: Fertility/Fecundity Symbols in Southern Calfiornia Iconography [Article]\ Koerper, Henry C
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology
Volume/ Issue Number	:	23/1
Date	:	2001
Abstract	:	Ornamental employment of Chestnut Cowry (Cypraea spadicea) shell artifacts in southern California prehistory included inlay work set into the rims of mortars and bowls. These and other observations are marshaled to develop circumstantial evidence pointing to a linkage of cowry shells with sex-based symbolism. More direct evidence from J. P. Harrington's notes connect the cowry symbolically to the vulva.