Granulate Cowrie Earrings Puka Shell Earrings Puka Shell Jewelry Hawaii Shells Kauai Puka Shell Jewelry Mermaids Jewelry Beach Earrings

These earrings are made with Granulate Cowrie shells 'Poloholoho'apu'upu'u ' cone shells and puka shells each hand picked from the beaches of Kauai. These shells are only found in the Hawaiian Islands and are the only species of Cowry shells that have a bumpy, textured shell. These earrings are a wonderful, practical way to include some "mana" into every day life.

Length:1.5'
Width:0.5'

They are strung with 40lb' test braided nylon line and are on 1/2" sterling silver ear wires. They will be shipped in a gift box and will come with rubber backings.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions always happy to help, Mahalo.

About the shells;
Puka shells are the tops of cone shells worn down by the ocean over time hundreds of years in fact. Puka in the hawaiian language means hole or pierced. Natives hawaiians believed that to give a puka shell lei as a gift would give the recipient much good will, and luck especially to sailors it was thought to bring them home safely. Cone shells come in many varieties and variations many of which are endemic to the Hawaiian islands. Worldwide cone shells are thought as a symbol of birth, rebirth, personal protection and good fortune. The "kapuna" Hawaiian mystic were one of the first cultures to recognized that the shells contain "mana" energy and incorporated the shells as part of their system of healing.
Since the shells harness the energy of the ocean and promote a healing of the gentle calmness and memories of the ocean we may be able to heal, deflect negative energy and emotions.
There are less cone shells, puka shells and many other varieties of shell each day, do to our oceans water level rising and pollution. Please respect our oceans our greatest natural resource, Mahalo.