End of Summer
by Dawn Gari
Title
End of Summer
Artist
Dawn Gari
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Relaxing and calm are the memories of walking the beach and find whole shells or even interesting pieces designed by nature and the power of the surf and sand. This image was taken on the beaches of the Outer Banks in NC
Cultural significance
Currency
Seashells have been used as a medium of exchange in various places, including many Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean islands, also in North America, Africa and the Caribbean.
Tools
Seashells have often been used as tools, because of their strength and the variety of their shapes.
Giant clams have been used as bowls, and when big enough, even as bathtubs and baptismal fonts.
Melo melo, the "bailer volute", is so named because Native Australians used it to bail out their canoes.
Many different species of bivalves have been used as scrapers, blades, clasps, and other such tools, due to their shape.
Some marine gastropods have been used for oil lamps, the oil being poured in the aperture of the shell, and the siphonal canal serving as a holder for the wick.
Horticulture
Because seashells are in some areas a readily available bulk source of calcium carbonate, shells such as oyster shells are sometimes used as soil conditioners in horticulture. The shells are broken or ground into small pieces in order to have the desired effect of raising the pH and increasing the calcium content in the soil.
Musical instruments
Seashells have been used as musical instruments, wind instruments for many hundreds if not thousands of years. Most often the shells of large sea snails are used, as trumpets, most commonly "conch" trumpets.
Personal adornment
Whole seashells or parts of sea shells have been used as jewelry or in other forms of adornment since prehistoric times
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April 4th, 2015
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