Conch Shell Trumpet
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: William Brackenridge
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: SIGNAL HORN MADE FROM A CONCH SHELL (TRITON VARIEGATUM) WITH A PORTION OF A COCONUT FIBER CORD ATTACHED TO A HOLE AT ONE END. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG, WRITTEN INSIDE OF SHELL "CARLSHOFF'S ISL. BY MR. BRACKINRIDGE EX EX B[OX] 23." EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. EXHIBITED SITES "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS," 1987-89.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN PROCEEDINGS, USNM, VOL. 60, ART. 9: PL. 42, NO. 1; P. 38." From 19th or early 20th century exhibit label with card: "WAR-HORN..---Made of conch shell (Triton variegatum), covered with a lime deposit, as if it had been imbedded in limestone. Used as a trumpet to rally the warriors in battle." LENGTH, 13 INS. MOUTH, 7 BY 4 1/2 INS. KARLSHOFF ID., IN BRIGHAM'S INDEX ARATIKA ISLAND, PAUMOTU GROUP [alternate name:] CARLSHOFF ISLAND (16 N., 145 30' W.), 1840. U.S. EXPLORING EXPEDITION, LIEUT. CHAS. WILKES, U.S. NAVY. NO. 715 IN PEALE'S CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Aratika Atoll, Tuamotu Archipelago, France, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tuamotuan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3825-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Trumpet
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 34 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 14 cm