Word: scrimshaw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only natural that a whaling museum should have grown here. We have added to it constantly so that now it has as fine a collection of things pertaining to whaling as is to be found anywhere in the world. All kinds of paraphernalia, log-books, pictures, and scrimshaw, which was the artistic work of the sailors, in engraving and carving whale ivory, have found their way into the museum. The prize of the collection, however, is a model of a whaling bark, built on half-scale, which is large enough to allow people to walk about on her decks...