They are still used for this purpose in the Andes, where they are known as pututu. Titanostrombus galeatus occurs in several countries and regions along the...

Chasqui playing a pututu (conch shell) in "Primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno" (drawing 168 folio 351)....

playing horns from the summits. A like function may be attributed to the pututu, the sound instrument from the Andes. The device, usually made of a shell...

trumpet or qiqiri from the coast, CE 300, Larco Museum Collection Lima, Peru. Most Andean military forces preferred the use of the pututu as an instrument....

well. Large tinkus are held in Potosí during the first few weeks of May. Pututu trumpets were used by the Indians in order to call for a Tinku encounter...

quena, bombo, huancara, reco reco, chiapya box, pinquillo, tarka, toyos, pututu, Andean saxophone, and Chajchas, as well as European musical instruments...

musician, including the ancient conch-shell Peruvian instrument known as pututus. Cook is a founding advisor (since 2008) to Smule, a successful mobile...

Huantar. They identified within the site held the same resonance produced by pututu shells (also used as instruments in the Chavín culture). Scientific research...

spit fire, and they must send his message. Tepulpai takes the chasqui's pututu and starts traveling to Cusco. The two follow two men to the Great Inca...

contrabassoon), 4 horns in F, 3 trumpets in B-flat and C (2nd doubling pututu in E-flat & A-flat and 3rd doubling piccolo trumpet in A), 3 trombones,...

same gallery, John Rick conducted excavations and found twenty shells (pututu in Quechua) sculpted in bas-relief. The stela shows an anthropomorphized...

Association the title of ‘The Man of Year’. from Ecuador: palla, rondador, pututus, bocina wind instruments from Peru: maolin, mandolin, charango bow instruments...

cattle horn or metal, and is used in annual fertility rituals. Unlike the pututu (Titanostrombus galeatus), which was used in pre-Columbian times, the waqra...