Shell Trumpet
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 Mar 1954
label: Collection Date
content: 1953
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Frederick M. Bayer
label: Donor Name
content: National Musuem of Natural History
notes: label: Notes
content: Tag with object reads: "Trumpet of Charonia tritonis called 'tawi' in the native language. Ifalik Atoll, Central Caroline Islands, Oct. 1953 F.M.B. These trumpets are blown by the chiefs to summon the citizens to a gen'l meeting, etc. Also used by the navigator and canoe captains to ward off bad or threatening weather."
label: Notes
content: From accession file: "Shell trumpet, Micronesian. Ifaluk Atoll, central Caroline Islands. Fashioned by piercing the large whorl next the lip of the shell of the mollusk, Charonia tritonis, and by rounding and smoothing the broken edge of the hole to a rounded mouthpiece. Used by navigators and canoe captains to ward off bad or threatening weather. The navigator, palu, blows the trumpet while standing on the exposed shoreline. He also recites incantations."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 Jun 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Ifalik Atoll, Yap State, Federated States of Micronesia, Micronesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Micronesian
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 201488
label: USNM Number
content: E392651-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Trumpet
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 30 cm
label: Diameter
content: 15 cm