019 whale tooth
Identification number: 019
Object: Decorated tooth
Material: Sperm whale
Artist: unknown
Date: mid 19th century Basis style
Length: 4 3/4" 12 cm
Width: 2 3/4" 6.9 cm
Thickness: 2 1/8" 6.4 cm
Pigment: black
Tool used: point; most pricks are round, some are triangular, suggesting either a sail needle or a knife blade tip. There is no evidence of undercutting by a knife blade
Design description: - Face whaling scene, ship in distance at right shown from starboard side; in distance left, whale with boat on back. Foreground, whaleboat approaching a blowing whale (mouth of bowhead, body of sperm!)
Verso:
Condition: dirty; cracks extending up from base on face 2" and 1/2", on Verso: 2 1/2" and 3/4"; other cracks on surface and on tip.
cleaned 10 May 1999
Other notes: sawed off at base to permit standing Design outlines are all pin-pricked; filling is made with lines
Location: Box 1
Cataloged by Judith N. Lund - Date: 5 April 1999
