Shell- Trumpets and thetr Disirtbution. 43 
Zembsch, in his “Katalog No. 1 verzeichniss einer 
ethnographischen Sammlung aus der Siidsee,”” gives a 
photo of a clay figure of a god from Malikolo with a 
Triton-trumpet tied to each hand. The trumpets are 
perforated on the side of the spire. 
In the Solomon Islands, Guppy® teils us that the shell- 
trumpets are made of large examples of both 7Zyzfox and 
Casszs, with a hole pierced on the side of the spire. 
In the island of Tanna, in the New Hebrides, shell- 
trumpets are blown as signals to the disease-makers, or 
sorcerers, to entreat them to stop plaguing their victims. 
“These disease-makers collected any wahak, or rubbish, 
that had belonged to anyone, such as the skin of a banana 
he had eaten, wrapped it in a leaf like a cigar,and burned 
it slowly at one end. As it burnt, the owner’s illness 
increased ; and if it was burnt to the end, he died ; there- 
fore, as soon as a man fell ill, feeling sure that some sorcerer 
was burning his rubbish, shell-trumpets, which can be 
heard for miles, are blown as a signal for the sorcerers to 
stop, and wait for the presents which should be sent in the 
morning. When a disease-maker fell ill himself, he too 
believed that some one was burning his rubbish, and had 
his shells blown for mercy.” 
Hedley, in his “ Ethnology of Funafuti, tells us 
that the Ellice Islanders are called together to a trial or 
other public ceremony by the blowing of a shell trumpet 
made from the large Caysszs cornuta. 
The conch-shell also ranges among the musical instru- 
°* Ethnographische Abteilung der Buchhandlung und Druckerei vor- 
mals, E. J. Brill, Leiden, 1897, pl. iii. 
®S Guppy, ‘f The Solomon Islands, and their natives,” 1887, p. 143. 
59 Lovell, of. czt., 1884, p. 195, quoting Turner's ‘‘ Polynesia,” and 
Taylor’s ‘* History of Mankind,” p. 128. See also G. Turner's ‘* Samoa,” 
etc., 1884, pp. 320-21. 
60 Mem. Aust. Afzes., ii., pt. 4, 1897, p. 299. 
