William
H. Tripp Collection T-1649 [T-1649 Blanket Piece]
William H. Tripp (1880-1959, American)
Blanket piece, showing the “Hump”
This blanket piece has attached to it the “Hump,”
the large prominence of a pyramidal form on the whale’s
back. Notice the “hump” is across the lower part
of the blanket piece.
BLANKET PIECE
A large slab of blubber, cut from a sperm whale, comes aboard
the schooner John R. Manta in 1923. Unseen is the majority
of the crew, heaving on the brake-windlass (a large winch)
forward. |
