025 whale tooth
Identification number: 025
Object: Decorated tooth
Material: Sperm whale
Artist: J. F. S.
Date: 19th century
Basis style
Length: 6 1/2" 16.4 cm
Width: 2" 5.4 cm
Thickness: Pigment: black (heavy, gummy)
Tool used: knife
Design description: Face Frigate foundering, inscribed "USS North Carolina, '74"
Verso: full Length: portrait of a woman in the costume of Lima, Peru with one eye showing through veil. inscribed "Lima Costum"
Condition: very dirty; bottom smoothed off mostly straight (will not stand); very brown near cut end; 1/2" crack up from base on Verso:
cleaned 3 May 1999 Other notes: La tapada is the name for this mid-nineteenth century attire of upper class women of Lima, Peru.
Location: Box 2
Cataloged by Judith N. Lund - Date: 5 April 1999
