Whale Tooth | Providence Public Library

Scrimshaw Collection

Title:: Whale Tooth
Description/Caption:: Material: Sperm whale
Date: after 1837
Basis publication Date: of The Pirates Own Book
Pigment: Black
Tool used: point ?
Design: Face Alwilda, the Female Pirate; very close copy of book illustration from The Pirates Own Book or Authentic Narratives of the Lives, Exploits, and Executions of the Most Celebrated Sea Robbers 1837, Philadelphia: Sanborn and Carter, 1837. Providence Public Library has a 1924 reprint edition 910.4 P66.
Verso: fashionable lady with hat, seated in chair, leaning on table; dress in 1830's style, probably copied from an illustration.
Collection:: Scrimshaw Collection
Item Type:: Decorated tooth
Item ID:: nwcS015b
Author/Creator:: Unknown
Dimensions:: Length: 6 3/4" 17.1 cm; Width: 2 5/8" 6.6 cm; Thickness: 1 3/4" 4.5 cm
Location:: PPL Special Collections
Source:: Paul C. Nicholson Whaling Collection
Notes:: Condition: dirty; cracks from cut base; large chip missing from bottom; chip missing at tip on Verso; Cleaned 3 May 1999; Other notes: Red bordered paper label glued to side reads "407/Nicholson" flat cut at base to permit standing; Location: Box 1; Cataloged by Judith N. Lund - Date: 5 April 1999
Tags/Keywords:: red, scrimshaw, tooth, whale, whalebone, whaling

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