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©1997 The Kendall
Institute
KWM # S-177 recto
SCRIMSHAW
Sea-elephant tooth stipple-engraved by Cape Verdean whaleman
João da Lomba aboard the New Bedford brig Daisy in
1906. Lomba was regarded as an expert in the Antarctic sea-elephant
hunt, a seasonal adjunct of many whaling voyages in that
era. In 1913, naturalist and shipmate Robert Cushman Murphy
called Lomba “a Homeric hero among whalemen.”
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