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Hi, Avril and all:
More on toys: In Pollack's History of Dolls and Toys, there is a
description of playthings of earliest times, centuries gone
by: These were natural items and included shells, pebbles, gourds
and the like. There is a photograph of shells, including a cowrie
and a spider conch, and the text mentions that babies might
have played with "two shells interlocked".
This book is published in England. There 's a great bibliography;
Avril, if you'd like me to copy it for you, please e-mail me
your snail mail address
We also have a "superseashells discovery collection" for kids, with
exercises for teachers to do to teach about sea life. Includes a starfish,
sea biscuit, several common Indo-Pacific shells, several worn strombus
pugilis.
Karen
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