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Scrimshaw decorated bone
possibly bovine rib sections, the first incised with phases of the sun and moon entitled True Course to Whaling Grounds with distance graph and directions and name reading Ship Bovor 1865; the second with a hunter smoking a pipe and about to shoot at Walruss entitled --henry Lane bear takeing Walruss Canada 1901--; the third heavily carved with a skull and ribs, instruments and whale entitled Jerimiah Hope Slain by a Whale. Pacific, 1880, the longest -- 16in. (40.5cm.) See illustration (3)
possibly bovine rib sections, the first incised with phases of the sun and moon entitled True Course to Whaling Grounds with distance graph and directions and name reading Ship Bovor 1865; the second with a hunter smoking a pipe and about to shoot at Walruss entitled --henry Lane bear takeing Walruss Canada 1901--; the third heavily carved with a skull and ribs, instruments and whale entitled Jerimiah Hope Slain by a Whale. Pacific, 1880, the longest -- 16in. (40.5cm.) See illustration (3)
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