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  • Skeleton of a 46-foot male sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) in the Nantucket Historical Museum. This whale stranded on New Year's day 1998.
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  • Jagging wheels, or pie crimpers, made of sperm whale teeth were ostensibly for cutting and decorating pastries, but they may have been valued primarily for their design and aesthetic appeal. This particular jagging wheel is one of many on display at the Nantucket Whaling Museum.
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  • Spermaceti in bottles, on display at the Nantucket Whaling Museum, with a painting depicting Captain Ahab of the Pequod in Melville's Moby Dick visible in the background. This spermaceti was taken from a 46-foot male sperm whale that stranded on New Year's day 1998 in Nantucket. Spermaceti was a highly prized substance and was the primary reason for the proliferation of whaling in Nantucket.
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  • Three large sperm whale teeth, illustrating preparation for scrimshaw. The tooth on the left is raw and unpolished. The middle tooth has been polished, perhaps with shark skin or some similar textured substance. The tooth on the left is in the process of being engraved with scrimshaw.
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  • Sperm whale tooth scrimshaw on display at the Nantucket Whaling Museum, with the inscription "The Susan on her homeward bound passage." This tooth is one of a well-known series of at least 35 engraved sperm-whale teeth known as Susan's Teeth, engraved by Frederick Myer. Frederick is the earliest known American scrimshaw artist to sign and date his work. This tooth is dated 22 August 1829. Behind this tooth is the Journal of the Whaleship Susan kept by Captain Reuben Russel from 12 December 1841 to 28 May 1846.
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  • Sperm whale skeleton suspended from the ceiling of Gosnell Hall in the Nantucket Whaling Museum. This 46-foot whale stranded on New Year's day 1998. Note the collection of harpoons hanging on the wall below and adjacent to the skeleton.
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  • This is a swift, an intricate device used for winding yarn into a ball. Swifts are among the most intricate of scrimshaw projects, with over a hundred pieces incorporated into the final product. Swifts could usually be mounted on table tops via an adjustable clamp, though some were mounted on inlaid wooden stands such as the one pictured here.
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  • Viewed from the top-down, the small hole near the top of this sperm whale's skull for the animal's left nasal passage is clearly visible. Sperm whales have a single blowhole on its left side. The nasal passage connected to its blowhole passes through this hole.
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  • Skeleton of a 46-foot  male sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) suspended from the ceiling of Gosnell Hall in the Nantucket Historical Museum. This whale stranded on New Year's day 1998. The whaling boat beneath the whale is an authentic whaling boat from nearby New Bedford. The whaling tools and implements displayed on the wall are also authentic.
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  • Collection of scrimshaw sperm whale teeth on display at the Nantucket Whaling Museum
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  • Jawbone (measuring 16 feet) and teeth of a male sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), on display at the Nantucket Whaling Museum. This jawbone was brought back to Nantucket by Captain William Cash of the whaling ship Islander in 1865.
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