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Snail trumpet
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Cataloguing data

Object type
musical instruments
Dimensions
Weight: 0,35 kg
Height: 24,5 cm
Depth: 8,5 cm
Width: 11 cm
Material/Technique
Snail shell (Charonia tritonis)
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VI 425

Provenance and sources

Production
when
18th century
where
Polynesia
Society islands
Tahiti
French Polynesia
Collecting
who
Cook, James - Collectors
Lichtenstein, Hinrich - Former Possessors
Change of legal title:
Acquisition
Description
Purchase from Martin Heinrich Karl Lichtenstein 1819
Assignment to a curated holding:
Oceania

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