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tooth, whale's, scrimshaw

human history
  • Ingoa Kē

    scrimshaw: illustration of boy (descriptive name)

  • Kupu whakaahua

    scrimshaw sperm whale tooth; depicts a boy; engraving very faint

  • Tohu Tuakiri Kē

    36129.2 (ethnology)

    col.1346 (colonial)

    mar.207 (maritime)

    HW 188 (Hobson Wharf)

    L1994.351.7 (loan number)

  • Wāhanga

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