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‘The Wider World & Scrimshaw’ Review: Maritime Marvels
The curators wish to correct the longtime Western bias in favor of American scrimshaw—the sailor’s art that works primarily with whale bone, teeth and baleen (the filter-feeding system within ...
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Etching salmon and belugas on bowhead baleen, Alaska elders and youth partake in Iñupiaq art form
Lena Layland, 18, etches a piece of baleen during a workshop at the Elders & Youth Conference in the Dena'ina Center on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024. (Bill Roth / ADN) Fish hanging in a smokehouse ...