> However getting a specimen directly from a fisherman would be a whole
> other ballgame... "smuggled", as it's illegal for them to sell ANY
> chank shell to anyone but an official buyer.

That's interesting because I bought my right-handed chank directly from a
fisherman who had been using it as a prayer object in his seaside hut in
Kerala, India. It was fresh dead: a fly buzzed out of it as I held it
reverently.

And to think I could have been clapped in jail in southern India.

David Kirsh
Durham, NC

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