shell-flower

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Noun 1. [画像:shell-flower - showy perennial of marshlands of eastern and central North America having waxy lanceolate leaves and flower with lower part creamy white and upper parts pale pink to deep purple]shell-flower - showy perennial of marshlands of eastern and central North America having waxy lanceolate leaves and flower with lower part creamy white and upper parts pale pink to deep purple

Chelone glabra, shellflower, snakehead, snake-head, turtlehead

Chelone, genus Chelone - herbaceous perennials: shellflower

bog plant, marsh plant, swamp plant - a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath

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(16) In the mid-1870s, Cassell's Household Guide provided step by step instructions for making a bouquet of shell-flowers, which involved making small flower heads by arranging similar sized and coloured shells as petals and attaching them to wire stems by using a combination of cotton, glue and wax.

As far as it is possible to tell, the explicitly religious items were not so common as previously, and I have found no reference to shell-baskets or shell-flowers being made after the late 1920s.

'You really only made it because you needed the money': Aboriginal women and shellwork production, 1870s to 1970s