Ostrich eggs artistic Uses

Besides eating them for thousands of years, people have also used ostrich eggs in arts and crafts. Their hard shells make a strong base for creating goods. Flower vases, candy dishes, mugs and jewelry boxes are only some of the items created from shells, while artists can paint many scenes and designs onto the sturdy canvas of the ostrich egg. Sometimes plain shells alone are used for decoration and are displayed on stands made especially for ostrich eggs.

 

Ostriches have inspired cultures and civilizations for 5,000 years in Mesopotamia and Egypt. A statue of Arsinoe II of Egypt riding an ostrich was found in a tomb in Egypt.Hunter-gatherers in the Kalahariuse ostrich eggshells as water containers, punching a hole in them. The presence of such eggshells with engraved hatched symbols dating from the Howiesons Poort period of the Middle Stone Age at Diepkloof Rock Shelter in South Africa suggests ostriches were an important part of human life as early as 60,000 BP.