He did not record the names or arrival dates of a single vessel carved into the whalebone.
Then he told the boy to bring in scrapings of whalebone.
To this must be added the whalebone and guano worth at least £60,000.
There are those creatures which constitute the plankton, upon which subsist mackerel, herring, tunny and the large whalebone whale.
Other forms of scrimshaw included whalebone fids (rope splicer), bodkins (needle), swifts (yarn holding equipment) and sailors' canes.
In many cases its armour plates were replaced with scales of metal, leather or whalebone laced together with silk or leather cords.
The whalebones, remnants of aboriginal whaling by the islanders, are big enough to work as elements like stair railings.
To increase rigidity, they were reinforced with many strips of whalebone, cording, or pieces of leather.
