. The Australian Museum magazine. Natural history. Till-: AISTKALIAN MUSEUM MAGAZINE. .165. A trumpet of the Great Conch (Charonia tritonis) decorated as a battle trophy. Plioto.—G. C. riuttDii. In Hawaii the ii'reat King Kanie- liameha possessed a famous military bugle of this kind which liad been play- ed in the battles of many generations, and which had exercised supernatural powers in time of peace. Such a trum- pet is pictured here from a specimen liossessing' exceptional interest, having ))een brought from the South Seas by Captain James Cook, the great naviga- tor. I'his particular trum
. The Australian Museum magazine. Natural history. Till-: AISTKALIAN MUSEUM MAGAZINE. .165. A trumpet of the Great Conch (Charonia tritonis) decorated as a battle trophy. Plioto.—G. C. riuttDii. In Hawaii the ii'reat King Kanie- liameha possessed a famous military bugle of this kind which liad been play- ed in the battles of many generations, and which had exercised supernatural powers in time of peace. Such a trum- pet is pictured here from a specimen liossessing' exceptional interest, having ))een brought from the South Seas by Captain James Cook, the great naviga- tor. I'his particular trumpet is thirteen inches long, and the embouchure, as musicians call it, of an inch in diameter is cut in the antepenultimate whorl. It is slung in meshes of flat sennit liraid, and a trophy of tufts of long black hair in a stem of human bone is thrust into the axis of the sliell. Grim battle sou- venirs tliesc seem to be of fallen war- riors and cannibal feasts. In Madagas- car, according lo Dr. Sibrce, this eoncli v\as called "amjombona," from the tiumpeting cry of the flamingo. Though considerably smaller than the great concli .shell, tlie European conch. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Australian Museum; Australian Museum. Sydney, Australian Museum
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