Sand Peso is a photograph by Dick Botkin which was uploaded on July 29th, 2012.
Title
Sand Peso
Artist
Dick Botkin
Medium
Photograph
Description
Sand Dollar, San Felipe, BC MX
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The term sand dollar (or sea cookie or snapper biscuit in New Zealand, or pansy shell in South Africa) refers to species of extremely flattened, burrowing sea urchins belonging to the order Clypeasteroida. Some species within the order, not quite as flat, are known as sea biscuits. Related animals include the sea cucumbers and starfish.
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A variety of imaginative associations have been made by idle beachcombers who run across the bleached skeletons of dead sand dollars. These skeletons are sometimes said to represent coins lost by mermaids or the people of Atlantis. Christian missionaries found symbolism in the fivefold radial pattern and dove-shaped internal structures. 'Aristotle's lantern' has been discerned in the distinctive perforations of keyhole sand dollars.
Uploaded
July 29th, 2012