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Snail trumpet
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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
musical instruments
Dimensions
Gewicht: 0,54 kg
Objektmaß: 13,5 x 30 x 14,5 cm
Material/Technique
Snail shell (Charonia tritonis), Bamboo
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VI 427

Provenance and sources

when
before 1819
where
Polynesia [Großregion]
Society islands [Inselgruppe]
Tahiti [Insel]
French Polynesia [Gebiet]

who
Cook, James - Collectors
Lichtenstein, Hinrich - Former Possessors

Description
Purchase from Martin Heinrich Karl Lichtenstein 1819

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