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The blue and black pigments used to paint this trumpet are still very much in evidence in yet another example of a ceremonial trumpet.




Painted conch trumpet
West Mexico
Late Pre-Classic to Early Classic periods (100 B.C. - 300 A.D.)
Unknown
Conch
32 cm.
National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico.

Photo © Jorge Pérez de Lara