SCRIMSHAW CARVED WHALE JAWBONE with 22 scrimshaw teeth
A 4 metre long sperm whale jawbone with extensive engravings depicting the voyage of historic whaling ship the Kathleen. The jawbone has 22 fitted scrimshawed teeth (to be listed separately). Each tooth is etched with scenes inspired by crewmate ballads detailing the voyage of the Kathleen.
The item is carved on a sperm whale jaw bone harvested at the Cheynes Beach Whaling company when it was operational. The scrimshaw artist, Gary Tonkin, was commissioned to undertake the carving. The piece took approximately 20 years to complete.
The Bark Kathleen was built in Philadelphia in 1844, and refitted 1899 and 1901. She sailed from New Bedford to '12-40 ground', an area of ocean in the Atlantic. It was here that she was struck by a whale and sunk in 1902.
Details
Details
Image: Depicting the sinking of the Kathleen.
Text:
THEY THAT GO DOWN TO SEA IN SHIPS / THAT DO BUSINESS IN GREAT WATERS / THESE SEE THE WORKS OF THE LORD / AND HIS WONDERS OF THE DEEP Ps 107
BORDERER GLASGOW
That Great AMERICA on the other side of the Sphere
AUSTRALIA gave...the world by the enlightened Whalemen
MOBY DICK XXIV HERMAN MELVILLE Merchant JWR WING Co'
1902
THOMAS 12 40 GROUND
KATHLEEN
The jawbone is sourced on site and carved by local resident Gary Tonkin, an internationally renown scrimshander. Tonkin has a long standing relationship with the Albany's Historic Whaling Station and its predecessors Whaleworld and Cheynes Beach Whaling Company.
Albany's Historic Whaling Station
Albany's Historic Whaling Station
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