Dr. Dan Killam on Nostr: Polynesian peoples have long used giant clam shells for all sorts of creative ...
Polynesian peoples have long used giant clam shells for all sorts of creative purposes, from evaporating seawater to get salt, to bathing babies. Perhaps inspired by this, many Catholic churches in Europe from the 1400s onward started using giant clam shells as baptismal fonts. #clamFacts
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