The Wider World & Scrimshaw |
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Editor:
| Slipp, Naomi |
Author:
| Cao, Maggie Harrison, Michael Lythberg, Billie Melillo, Edward Polzak, Kailani Reid, Josh Rivera Laxton, Ymelda Rocha, Robert Sethi, Nadia Tucker Jones, Ryan Wagelie, Jennifer Wells, Marina Bremner, Alison Brower, Bobby Casey, Terava Gingrich, Erin Hope, Ishmael Hutchinson, Elizabeth James-Perry, Elizabeth Jones, Jamie L. Kelliher Combs, Sonya Kuaiwa, Sarah Lafaiki Twiss, Cora-Allan Leonard, Courtney Nuku, Maia Pushaw, Bart Vunidilo, Tarisi Wanhalla, Angela Zawadski, Krista |
ISBN: | 978-0-933969-03-2 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2024 |
Publisher: | Old Dartmouth Historical Society-New Bedford Whaling Museum
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $65.00 |
Book Description:
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The Wider World & Scrimshaw explores carving traditions that emerged alongside subsistence and commercial whaling routes around the Pacific, from New Bedford, MA to Oceania and the Arctic. The New Bedford Whaling Museum (NBWM) holds the largest collection of "scrimshaw" in the world, defined as a decorative, folk, or vernacular art made by whalers from the byproducts of whales. General audiences frequently misconstrue maritime history and scrimshaw specifically as linked only to white,...
More DescriptionThe Wider World & Scrimshaw explores carving traditions that emerged alongside subsistence and commercial whaling routes around the Pacific, from New Bedford, MA to Oceania and the Arctic. The New Bedford Whaling Museum (NBWM) holds the largest collection of "scrimshaw" in the world, defined as a decorative, folk, or vernacular art made by whalers from the byproducts of whales. General audiences frequently misconstrue maritime history and scrimshaw specifically as linked only to white, male, New England makers. Wider World overturns these assumptions by placing our incredible scrimshaw collection into conversation with Indigenous material culture from across the Pacific world.