It didn't matter that the Key lime shell, the waffle basket and the pastry in the cannoli weren't made in house.
This is important because although you are using the shell for a "basket," the inside of the fruit will still be eaten.
Traditional handicrafts, including woodwork, shell inlay, mats, baskets, and shell jewelry, are made both for the tourist market and for export.
She cast purple plumes in the air as she hit target after target after target, calmly casting her discarded shells into the basket beside her.
They include two small punctured wall reliefs in cast porcelain by the Italian artist Lucio Fontana (from 1968, editions of 75); an ingenious flat-bottomed smoking pipe from 1969 by the Italian designer Joe Colombo and four mid-20th-century African objects: two carved wood masks, a cast bronze three-legged stool and a Yoruba cowrie-shell-covered currency basket.
Most of the items in the shop have a maritime theme, including a cocktail shaker in the form of an oil lamp ($165), a silver serving dish shaped like a shell ($50), Nantucket baskets ($250) and a miniature of the U.S.S.
Among the archipelagic tribes of southern Chile it was predominantly the women who gathered shellfish on the beaches at low tide and who, from bark canoes, dived with a shell blade and a basket held in their teeth.
Back in Georgetown, waiting for a taxi to the airport, we do a last-minute dash around the street stalls: all I salvage are an oil painting of the Kaieteur Falls (a rather Surrealist interpretation), a shell necklace, a woven basket and as much El Dorado rum as possible, before the plane carries us to a connecting flight at Barbados, and the waters change from brown to a shock of bright blue.
Now many families participate in the straw market set up to greet incoming ships, selling their crafts -- shell jewelry, bone knives, baskets, carvings -- for anywhere from $2 to $20.
And the first "Fanning Island" T-shirts (made in Tarawa, I'd guess) have already begun to appear among the pretty shell necklaces and woven baskets of the market.
