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Snail trumpet

Data Provider
Ethnologisches Museum Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

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

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    before 1819
    where
    Polynesia
    Society islands
    Tahiti
    French Polynesia
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Purchase from Martin Heinrich Karl Lichtenstein 1819
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Oceania

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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