Whale teeth, from toothed whales, obviously, such at the very desirable sperm whale, and ivory, from walrus & other sources (also teeth, of course).
Surely on other surfaces, too, but those are the materials I remember. A brief "googling" turns up ivory--whale teeth & walrus tusks--as a modern & nineteenth century medium to put scrimshaw on. Modern scrimshaw'rs (??) also use fossil mammoth ivory, vegetable 'ivory, and hippo tusks. Not baleen, not bone. I just was looking at some scrimshaw at Old Mystic Seaport in Mystic, CT two weeks ago, but no guarantees. Ann in CT --- Lloyd Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am I really off the wall to be remembering that > most/ much of traditional > scrimshaw was done with whalebone? Especially the > larger pieces? The > whaling museum in New Bedford, Ma. might be a good > site to answer this > question. > > Kathleen __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
