40 Shells as evidence of the M ii^idtioi/s. 



Von Martens refers to the use of shell trumpets ii-. 



the Philippine Islands, in the island of Halmaheira (o' 



Giloloy' and by the A 1 furs of Ceram/' 



A fine specimen of a trumpet made from a large 



Triton tritonis has recently been shown me by Professc)? 



S. J. Hickson. It was obtained by him in the Celebes 



and is perforated on the side of one of the upper whorls. 



It was used by the boatman who carried round the mails 

 and may have originally come up from the south. 



In Papua, or New Guinea. Cassis eornuta, Tritoi 

 tritonis, and Ranella la?npas, are used as trumpets, havini, 

 a hole drilled as a mouthpiece in one of the upper whorls.' 

 In addition to the Triton, Moseley^"' tells that a large- 

 con ical Strombus, perforated at the apex, not on the side, 

 as in Triton, is used by the natives of Humboldt Bay 

 Among the musical instruments used by the natives of 

 the Admiralty Islands are conch-shells perforated on the 

 side as usual.*' 



The only instrument of the trumpet kind used b\- the 

 Torres Straits Islanders is a giant Fusus [F. p7'oboscidiferns, 

 Lam.^"], or occasionally a large Triton. The Fusus is 

 universally employed, and, according to Haddon,"' the 

 mouth-hole is always lateral. It was employed for con- 

 veying signals, but now at all events is most frequently 

 blown when the natives are sailing, especially when going 

 fast or racing. 



■" Zeits./iir Eihiiol., iv. , 1872, p. 34, Jidc Schmellz, " SchiTJcken uiu! 

 Mu.scheln im leben der vcilker Indoncsiens und Oceaniens," Leiilcii, 1804. 



••« Verliand. der Berl. Anthro. Gess., 189S, p. 485. 



■*" A. H. Cooke, op. cit., p. 99. 



■•■* Moseley, *' Notes by a Naluialisl on II.M..S. ' Clialleiitjcr ",' '892. 

 p. 378. 



*' ]\lo.seIey. op. .//., p. 407, also /our. Aittlirop. hist., 6. 1S76-7, 

 p. 411. 



"" Vxo\i2i!o\-^ Alegalatrailitis ariianus {\^). 



••' " Anthrop. Exped. to Torres Straits,' Cambridge, iv., 1912, p. 283. 

 and fig. 248. 



