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Not your grandfather’s scrimshaw: Duke Riley engraves pollution scenes on ocean plastic
Category: Government & Organizations
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 2024-07-11 13:35:15
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A decorated engine coolant bottle, painted and waxed to look like bone, depicts a grim scene of industrial pollution in New Bedford harbor.

The New Bedford Whaling Museum’s scrimshaw collection, which includes hundreds of whalebone clocks, pie crimpers, musical instruments, canes and umbrellas, is advertised as the largest of its kind in the world.  Naomi Slipp, the museum’s chief curator, said these items weren’t considered fine art when the museum’s founders began collecting them from locals in 1903, […]

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