But many had sailed from Salem laden with tools and trinkets, to be traded in Africa for human cargo.
Ensor made his artist's studio in the attic of his family's home, where his mother ran a souvenir shop selling beach trinkets and masks for the annual carnival.
Gypsy women do a brisk trade in trinkets, elaborately embroidered clothing, bedding, POTS and pans.
In the same way, Rima stealthily investigates her godmother's home, searching for clues, finding little more than dusty fan mail and trinkets.
Four minutes from piazza San Marco, it is an oasis of gardens and far from the tourists and people who sell trinkets that mob the piazza.
Rarely do I answer "yes," but every time I think "no" is a quiet assertion that I refuse to trade my freedom for trinkets.
All she's wearing are trinkets in her hair and a plastic beaded necklace, like you see at Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
So what's a geek to do to find reasonably priced trinkets?
They can be embroidered, or have pockets to hold trinkets.
