024 whale tooth
Identification number: 024
Object: Decorated tooth
Material: Sperm whale
Artist: unknown
Date: 20th century
Basis style
Length: 4 1/2" 11.5 cm
Width: 1 3/4" 4.4 cm
Thickness: 1 1/4" 3.2 cm
Pigment: black, blue, red
Tool used: point?
Design description: - Face shield with "Hope" and anchor
Verso: crude ship under sail shown from starboard bow; band of rectangles, red, blue, black, around bottom
Condition: not as dirty as most; crack on back from gum end of tooth about 1"
cleaned 3 May 1999
Other notes: very crudely inscribed by unsure hand; vessel not very seamanlike
Location: Box 2
Cataloged by Judith N. Lund - Date: 5 April 1999
