Scrimshaw
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Scrimshaw is scrollwork, engravings, and carvings done in bone or ivory. Typically it refers to the artwork created by whalers, engraved on the byproducts of whales, such as bones or cartilage. It is
American whaling ships, scrimshaw on whale tooth, c. 1800
Carved whale bone whistle dated 1821, 8 centimetres (3.1 in) long; belonged to a 'Peeler' in the Metropolitan Police in London
Pair of walrus tusks depicting a sailor and a woman. Rhode Island or Connecticut, circa 1900
Closeup of a sailor
New Bedford Whaling Museum
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The New Bedford Whaling Museum is a museum in New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States that focuses on the history, science, art, and culture of the international whaling industry, and the colonial r
New Bedford Whaling Museum and New Bedford Harbor
The entrance to the New Bedford Whaling Museum
The Lagoda in the Bourne Building of the New Bedford Whaling Museum
The blue whale skeleton known as KOBO (King of the Blue Ocean) at the New Bedford Whaling Museum