Carved Sperm Whale Tooth (Scrimshaw) ...
This engraved Sperm Whale Tooth with a farewell maritime scene comes from the collection of the [Scottish Fisheries Museum](http://http://www.scotfishmuseum.org/) in Anstruther (Fife). The art of engraving designs on to the teeth, bones or baleen of sperm whales and other marine mammals is called a...
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ftdatacite:10.5281/zenodo.10353348 2024-02-04T10:04:48+01:00 Carved Sperm Whale Tooth (Scrimshaw) ... ScottishMaritimeMuseum 2019 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10353348 https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10353348 unknown Zenodo https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10353347 Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode cc0-1.0 Dataset dataset 2019 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1035334810.5281/zenodo.10353347 2024-01-05T13:52:28Z This engraved Sperm Whale Tooth with a farewell maritime scene comes from the collection of the [Scottish Fisheries Museum](http://http://www.scotfishmuseum.org/) in Anstruther (Fife). The art of engraving designs on to the teeth, bones or baleen of sperm whales and other marine mammals is called a scrimshaw. It was a common pastime of sailers on long whaling voyages. Sperm whales have 23 pairs of teeth which were particularly prized for scrimshaw. After extraction, the teeth were scraped smooth and polished. The design could be engraved freehand or copied using a template. The 3D model was created by the Scottish Maritime Museum as a part of the Scanning The Horizon project, working with collections from Industrial Museums Scotland ([Go Industrial](http://www.goindustrial.co.uk/)). Source: Objaverse 1.0 / Sketchfab ... Dataset Sperm whale DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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This engraved Sperm Whale Tooth with a farewell maritime scene comes from the collection of the [Scottish Fisheries Museum](http://http://www.scotfishmuseum.org/) in Anstruther (Fife). The art of engraving designs on to the teeth, bones or baleen of sperm whales and other marine mammals is called a scrimshaw. It was a common pastime of sailers on long whaling voyages. Sperm whales have 23 pairs of teeth which were particularly prized for scrimshaw. After extraction, the teeth were scraped smooth and polished. The design could be engraved freehand or copied using a template. The 3D model was created by the Scottish Maritime Museum as a part of the Scanning The Horizon project, working with collections from Industrial Museums Scotland ([Go Industrial](http://www.goindustrial.co.uk/)). Source: Objaverse 1.0 / Sketchfab ... |
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