Triton Horn

Unidentifed Kānaka Maoli maker

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Triton Shell

Overall: 9 1/16 × 3 15/16 in. (23 × 10 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Acquired by exchange from the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawai'i

41.10.7473

Geography

Place Made: Hawaii, Polynesia, Oceania

Object Name

Musical Instrument

Research Area

Oceania

Not on view

Provenance

Peabody-Henriques Collection; Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii; received in Exchange #22 to the present collection, 1941.

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