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Use of Covcrv-slicUs for Ciiiicinv, ^l»/N/r/s, etc. 155 



other {Dhilosopheis, that nothing created was annihilated, 

 and that to cease to be was onlj- to assume another forin, 

 dissolution beini^ merely the passaf:je to reproduction. 

 In its association with the Horfinior [c?;/c/ /// tJiis coiuicction 

 the presence of the coxvry must not be overlooked]!'^- we 

 seem to have the reflection of some such ideas, the fetish 

 being animated by the indwellinfr life of the victim and 

 the spirit attracted to it." 



The Borfimor ba^;^ also contained a pebble made of 

 some earthy matter and lime, in one side of which was 

 incorporated a cowry-shell. 



The remarkable resemblance in the use of the money- 

 cowry here to that of the Ojibwa and Menomini tribes 

 of North America, who also employ the same shell, has 

 been pointed out already in a previous paper.'"' 



In Liberia, according to Stewart CAilin,'"^ pierced 

 cowr\--shells {i.e.. rubbed down on the back) are used in 

 fortune-telling. {See Fig. E., p. 156). Ratzel {of. cit., iii., 

 p. 105) also gives a figure (f. 6) of a sword-sheatii from 

 Liberia which is ornamented with cowries arranged in 

 stars. 



l^owdich, who in 18 17 was sent on a mission of jjeace 

 from Cape Coast Castle to Kumassi, mentions that in 

 Accra, as in Gaman, Kong and cAher neighbouring places, 

 cowries had currency. 



North of Ashanti pro[)er, in Koran/a and Atabuobtj, 

 Perregaux found them in full u.se and of higher value than 

 on the coast. According to this observer, in Koranza, 

 they were counted per thousand, ami 100 cowries were 



' "" The italicized sentence is my own. 



'"" j. \V. Jackson, "The Money CoxMy [Cj'py.,a iiioiieta, L.) a> a 

 Sacicii Object among North American Indians,'" Maiich. Afenioirs {Lit. and 

 Phil. Sor.), vol. l.\. (1916), No. 4. See also p. 184 of this cliapter. 



"'■• Culin. "Chess and I'layini,' C"ards,'\'/. <//., p. S15, f(.otii..le, and 

 tig. 134 on p. 817. 



