The sculpture is based on a walrus tusk scrimshaw held in the museum’s collections – an intricate art form traditionally practiced by sailors on bone or ivory during long sea voyages.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- In the downtown ivory shops, alongside whale baleen baskets and walrus tusk statuettes, tourists finger curios made from the fossils of shaggy Ice Age beasts that died ...

See more than 300 objects that suggest cultural and material exchanges between these two groups, and include carvings on walrus tusk, whale tooth, tortoise shell, wood, and coconut.

Billy Komonaseok, Large walrus tusk cribbage board with monochrome engraving on both sides (c. 1910) On Tuesday, ... and had an influence on “Yankee” whaling scrimshaw.

The initial design for a new sculpture, inspired by an engraved walrus tusk, has been revealed as the centrepiece to a redeveloped museum. Entitled Abeona, the suspended artwork will span three ...

The sculpture is based on a walrus tusk scrimshaw held in the museum’s collections – an intricate art form traditionally practiced by sailors on bone or ivory during long sea voyages.