Manchester Memoirs, Vol. Lx. (191 6), No. 13. 53 



Cyprcea moneta appears to have been current also in 

 other islands of the Pacific, as Brenchley states : 159 " At 

 Eramango [New Hebrides] a shell called 4 Nunpuri,' the 

 Cyprcea moneta, passes as money, as also in New Caledonia." 



In the Bismark Archipelago, says Schneider [op. cit. y 

 p. 118), C aimulus was found as money in special cases. 



In Gilbert Archipelago, the Ellice and Kingsmill 

 Islands, Cyprcea moneta and C. annnlus are used as body- 

 ornament and for decorating implements and tools. 160 



F. W. Christian, in his article " On Micronesian 

 Weapons, Dress, Implements, etc," 161 figures a cowry-shell 

 used in the Carolines for stripping off the outer skin of 

 the bread-fruit. The figured shell looks like a Cyprcea 

 mauritiana. He also figures an Ovulum ovum shell 

 (often alluded to as the white cowry) pierced for 

 ornamenting prows of canoes. The use of this shell 

 as a canoe-ornament is general throughout the Pacific. 

 Amongst other places it is recorded from the Pelew Islands, 

 Yap, Gilbert Archipelago, Samoa, Nine, Viti Islands, 

 Solomon Archipelago and Torres Straits Islands. In 

 some of the^e and in other islands it is also worn as an 

 ornament for the neck, breast, or leg, and placed on the 

 outsides of native houses. In Tonga it is used as a grave- 

 ornament, and in the Solomons as decoration of an idol. 16 '" 



In Tahiti, Cyprcea moneta and C talpa are worn on 

 the neck, and C. tigris occurs on the base of an idol from 

 Tahiti, now in the British Museum. 163 Sir C. H. Read, in 

 his descripticn of specimens obtained on Vancouver's 



150 Brenchley, " Crirse of the ' Curacoa,' " 1873, P- 2 99> quoted by C. 

 Hedley, Jile//i. Aust. Mi/s., iii., pt. 7, 1899, p. 452. 



100 Schneider, op. it/., p. 118. 



161 J. Anthiop. Inst , 28 (1898-91, pp. 2S8 et seq., pi. xxiv., f. 5. 



162 Schmellz, " Schneckeu und Muscheln in leben der volker Indo- 

 nesiens und Oceaniens," Leiden, 1894. 



103 Ibid. 



