Shell Horn Or Trumpet "Davui"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: Lt. Cadwalader Ringgold
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: A TRITON SHELL (TRITON-TRITONIS) WITH A DRILLED HOLE AT THE NARROWER END, AND A BRAIDED COCONUT FIBER CORD ATTACHED AT THE OPEN END. SIDE BLOWN. THERE IS ALSO A WIRE ATTACHED TO THE CORD AND THE POINT WHICH IS PRESUMABLY AN EARLY EXHIBITION DEVICE. MARKS> "CAPT. RINGGOLD ES USN BRIG PORPOISE [brig USS Porpoise was one of the ships used on the U.S. Exploring Expedition]" WRITTEN ON SHELL. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. EXHIBITED SITES "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS," 1987-89.
label: Notes
content: SI ARCHIVE DISTRIBUTION DOCUMENTS SAY SENT TO E.R. BEADLE, PA, 1867.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "2906-8. SHELL OF SPECIES OF TRITON. MOUTH HOLE EXCAVATED FROM SPIRE NEXT TO BODY WHORL, AND ON SAME SIDE AS MOUTH OF SHELL. NOTE IN T. R. PEALE'S CATALOGUE: "WAR CONCH'S GENERALLY BLOWN AS A SIGNAL FOR HOSTILITIES BY THE NATIVES OF THE FIJI ISLANDS." SEE ALSO: CAT. NOS. 3466; 3825." FROM CARD: "2906. A TRITON SHELL (TRITON-TRITONIS) (LINN) THE MOUTH HOLE IS MADE IN THE SAME SIDE AS THE MOUTH OF THE SHELL."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 Jun 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fiji, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Fijian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E2906-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Trumpet
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 38 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 16 cm