Part of the history features prominently in a famous lakalaka written by queen Sālote somewhere around 1940, when the shell, claimed to be the original one from Sāngone herself, was transferred to the Tupou College museum.
The beautiful goddess Hinahengi from Pulotu came to Mokotuʻu, a tract near Longoteme on Tongatapu, to wash her hair with the clay and then to dry it.
His wife acquiesced and said that he could travel on the back of her mother, who happened to be a turtle with the name Sāngone.
Contrary to his wife's instructions, he broke one open on Sāngone's head and not on her shield.
Meanwhile, Lekapai had gone to sleep, and when he woke up, he found himself magically transported back into the house of the wind god.
Once upon a time Loʻau went to Tonga and reported the happenings to king Tuʻitātui, who expressed the wish to have these relics.
The Samoan hosts had no idea what he was talking about, and quickly sought consult with the ancient and decrepit dwarf Lāfaipana who lived in the bush.
The latter told them that a wild hopa (plantain) standing lonely in the bush was meant, as ripe bananas bend down from the stalk, and that taro leaves picked by pulling them from the stem give a screeching sound.
When the Samoans after that brought the Tonga party plantain bananas wrapped in taro leaves and cooked in the ʻumu, Fasiʻapule knew that the riddle was solved.
The dwarf was extremely unwilling to reveal the burial place of Sāngone, because of the prophecy done to him.
When also Fasiʻapule showed that he knew how to apportion the kava at the congregation, Lāfaipana admitted defeat.
Kava spitting (toasting) from Samoa were all answered and caught state this: clap with [cupped] hands it gives dust and: bunch fainting alone in the bush this: leaf that screeches and whistles and then: singing winds belong to it: growling and lying down and the sharing of the royal toast of the congregation.
Before he let the Tongans start digging under the then-dead candlenut tree, Lāfaipana had a personal request to make: he would like to have a branch for his dove to perch on.
When king Maeakafa heard about it, he went to Fiji, searched for it and found some of the shell and brought it back to Tonga where it still is (see above).