You are in: Home » Museum » Museum catalogue » Scrimshaw Collection » Article
Museum catalogue: Scrimshaw Collection
Home
About
Browse all items
GalleryScrimshaw
 |
|
| Accession no.: | Y: 62/15/37 |
| Title: | Scrimshaw |
| Description: | Tooth 92 mm, polychrome: brownish red and blue-green. Spray of foliage. |
| Object type: | Scrimshaw |
| Classified name: | 730.235 & 639.245.1 |
| Number of items: | 1 |
| Full description: |
Whole: A rare motif of a spray of foliage: a sinuous stem with paired green leaves or leaflets, the nearer greenish, that behind redish. Within the pulp cavity the name "Jacobson" in a rounded script is written in Indian ink. A tooth with similar foliage is in the New Bedford Whaling Museum, Massachussetts. |
| Dimensions: | Image:
|
| All images for this article: | |