Red Clay Shell Censer -- Shell from zipolite oaxaca

I went to oaxaca at september. It's a amzaing journey. In my following life, I will always remember and miss those days. I got these shells from the beach of Zipolite as a memento. I thought I need to make something out of these shells. I bought a chunk of red paper clay long time back. And I deceided to make a censer. I made it too big and at the end I did not have enough clay. That's the reason the surface is not so smooth. Anyway we use it all the time and we don't need to clean the ash any more.

Sachin has written the blogs about the journey. http://sachinb.blogspot.com/search?q=oaxaca+beach and http://sachinb.blogspot.com/2008/10/oaxacan-odyssey-part-ii.html.