IDNO

P.85340.MUS

Description

On display case label for 1925.374:
"Putatara.
Trumpet of triton shell (charonia capax) with wooden mouthpiece and original flax modulator.
Maori. New Zealand
Cook Collection
(ex-Pennant Collection)
d. Earl of Denbigh." [Alex Nadin, 18/3/2003]

Documentary photograph of the convex side of a "Conch shell, with wooden mouth piece and the original modulator. The shell has been broken and mended with wood. Made with stone tools (according to D. R. Simmons of the Auckland Museum).
Additional description: Trumpet of triton shell (charonia capax) with wooden mouthpiece and original flax modulator. Mouthpiece decorated with raised and incised design, and attached to shell with string and ?resin. Rough outer surface. Underside has piece of ?wood attached to body of shell." [from MAA Object record 1925.374, JD 12/3/2010]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; Europe British Isles; New Zealand; United Kingdom; North Island; ?Taranaki; England; Cambridge; Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology [Aotearoa]

Cultural Affliation

Maori

Named Person

Photographer

?Museum Photographer

Collector / Expedition

Cook Collection; Earl of Denbigh; Pennant Collection [Object Collector and Donor]

Date

Collection Name

Museum Objects and Galleries

Source

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.85326 to P.85347 were found inside envelope now numbered C414/17/ which came from the box formerly numbered 162, now re-numbered C414/.

This object is on display in the main New Zealand case in the Maudsley Gallery.
This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program One. [Alex Nadin, 20/3/2003].