SHELL TRUMPETS OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDERS. Tht right-hand ore is a Maori trumpet made from a New Zealand shell and fitted nnth a carved wooden mouthpiece. The top one with a Wooden mouthpiece is also Maori, but the shell is from the tropical Pacific. Tht large trumpet at the left is Melanesian and shows the circular mouthpicct cut in the side of the shelL
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 159, 6 July 1940, Page 2 (Supplement)
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64SHELL TRUMPETS OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDERS. Tht right-hand ore is a Maori trumpet made from a New Zealand shell and fitted nnth a carved wooden mouthpiece. The top one with a Wooden mouthpiece is also Maori, but the shell is from the tropical Pacific. Tht large trumpet at the left is Melanesian and shows the circular mouthpicct cut in the side of the shelL Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 159, 6 July 1940, Page 2 (Supplement)
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