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Example of scrimshaw on sperm whale's tooth. Circa 1840
Credit
NOAA Central Library Historical Fisheries Collection; Smithsonian Institution
Display Date
1964
Location
Connecticut, Mystic Seaport
Collection
Historic Fisheries