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Cute Young Brunette Girl With Long Hair On The Bed With Sea Shells
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The Moche culture of ancient Peru worshipped animals and the sea, and often depicted shells in their art.
• As musical instruments
Seashells have been used as musical instruments, wind instruments for many hundreds if not thousands of years. Most often the shells of large sea snails are used, as trumpets, by cutting a hole in the spire of the shell, or cutting off the tip of the spire altogether. Various different kinds of large marine gastropod shells can be turned into "blowing shells", however the most commonly encountered species used as "conch" trumpets are:
The sacred chank, Turbinella pyrum, known in India as the shankha. In Tibet it is known as "dung-dkar".
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