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Scrimshaw Collection

Title:: Whale Tooth
Description/Caption:: Material: Sperm whale
Date: 19th Century
Basis style
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"
Collection:: Scrimshaw Collection
Item Type:: Decorated tooth
Item ID:: nwcS025a
Author/Creator:: J. F. S.
Dimensions:: Length: 6 1/2" 16.4 cm; Width: 2" 5.4 cm
Location:: PPL Special Collections
Source:: Paul C. Nicholson Whaling Collection
Notes:: 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
Tags/Keywords:: scrimshaw, tooth, whale, whale bone, whaling

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