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European traders selling pearls from Europe or from other parts of Africa to the blacks of Benin could not have imagined that the pearls could have been used other than ornamentally. But the Africans integrated the pearl into their different cultures, going quite beyond the superficial and immediate visual effect. Studies of these effects contribute little having lost their originality.However, from another perspective, the study of the different non-ornamental functions of pearls help the researcher shed light on relevant lines of research for the historian and the ethnologist and anthropologist seeking to understand mental structures.