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STRINGS OF COWRIES 
West African symbolic m« 
** Amulet for protection,” 
ssag 
USED AS MESSAGES, ETC, 
e (after Bloxam). 
from Kafr Ammar, Egypt (after Petrie). 
.—String of C. annu/us from rubbish dating to xxi. dynasty. Medum 
(in Manchester Museu 
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