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- ↑ Armstrong, Wayne P. (August 1996). "The Coconut Pearl". Coconut Museum. Retrieved 2 October 2010.
- ↑ Reginald Child. "Coconuts". 2nd ed. London: Longman Group Ltd. 1974.
- ↑ "Botanical Jewelry Necklaces & Bracelets Made From Plants". Wayne's Word: An Online Textbook of Natural History. 2000. Retrieved 16 November 2008.
- ↑ "The Coconut Pearl". Wayne's Word. Archived from the original on 2017-07-10. Retrieved 9 December 2010.
- ↑ Skertchly, Ethelbert Forbes (1896). "Cagayan Sulu, its Customs, Legends, and Superstitions". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 65, part III: 47–57.
