Conch Shell Trumpet
date: label: Accession Date
content: 31 Oct 2019
name: label: Donor Name
content: Te Arikirangi Mamaku
notes: label: Notes
content: Modified conch shell used ceremonially by Te Arikirangi Mamaku (Maori) and presented to Laurie Burgess, Associate Chair of the Anthropology Department, at the close of the international repatriation of Maori and Moriori remains on May 24, 2016, in the Rose Room at the NMNH. Te Arikirange said that the shell trumpet was used to call the spirits of the dead. He also said that the text written on the shell, Toi-O-Mataatua, is the name of the canoe that brought his ancestors to New Zealand.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 Jun 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: New Zealand (Aotearoa), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Maori
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2084428
label: USNM Number
content: E436261-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Trumpet
physicalDescription: label: Length - Conch Shell
content: 24.5 cm
label: Width - Conch Shell
content: 23 cm
label: Height - Conch Shell
content: 21.4 cm