- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Shell trumpet [RR 9/1/2020]
- Geographical reference
- Admiralty Islands Bismarck Archipelago
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: Possibly before 1876
- Date collected
- ?Prior to 1876
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Shell, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Width: max 210 mm, Length: max 400 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.112.24 Other numbers: 130.J.30, 309.90 PR Cat other PR nos: 3008
- Research and responses
PD Charonia Tritonis - Linnaeus. [HLR]
Search terms: Music, Musical Instrument, Trumpet
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