A moken tribesman in myanmar 's andaman islands displays two large cowrie shells .
缅甸安达曼群岛上，一位莫肯族人手里展示了两枚大货贝。
Cowrie whose shell is used for money in parts of south pacific and africa .
其壳在南非和亚洲的部分地区被用作货币的子安贝。
Long braids and cowrie shells : symbolise fertility and wealth
长长的辫带和贝壳：象征着生育力与富有。
In early human trade activities , a shell named cowrie has played a role as medium of commodities exchange , for its durability , brightening , portable and the characteristics of natural units , which is also the most primitive currency .
One of the first things that you learn in any economic anthropology course is that value is always relative and culturally anchored whether the goods being exchanged are cowrie shells ( used as a status symbol in the trobriand islands ) or dollar bills ( whose worth depends on trust in a central bank ) .
