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Featured Galleries: Scrimshaw

Scrimshaw is carvings, engravings or scrollwork typically done in bone or ivory. It is most often known as artwork created by sailors on whaling voyages, which lasted between one and three years. Bones, teeth and baleen left over from whales were often used as a medium.

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Busk
Dipper
Wick Pick
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Newport Historical Society
82 Touro Street
Newport RI 02840
401.846.0813