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Sep 19

Sailors’ hands! Scrimshaw marvels in New Bedford!

  • September 19, 2018
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  • Marine Instrument, Sculpture

Sailing requires many skills and expert hands, but sometimes the winds die down and there’s time to kill which is when, if you’re a sailor, you do a little scrimshaw! If you find yourself in New Bedford, MA, don’t miss the New Bedford Whaling Museum’s @whalingmuseum scrimshaw collection (and its many other treasures – namely, the longest painting in North America, the 1,275 foot long Grand Panorama of a Whaling Voyage)!

We’re looking at scrimshaw as visual reference for our Imaginative Nautical Instrument sculpture.  But we’re going lo-tech-high tech! Stay tuned…

scrimshaw tooth
scrimshaw
milled scrimshaw
drawings for scrimshaw

 

 

 

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