Tattoos seem almost commonplace in modern American, so it may be hard to believe they evolved from the early days of global exploration, when Western mariners were introduced to body art in South ...
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A Unique Heirloom Knife Returns with a Multifaceted Makeover That Won’t Stick Around Long
The WESN x P&Co collaboration is back with new treatments that are just as whimsical and rare as those in the original ...
Long before there were portable electronic screens to create with and be entertained by, there were much simpler ways to occupy long periods of time. Some of these simpler ways grew to be quite ...
Dolphin skull covered in scrimshaw of ships, foliage, a butterfly, and flags, from 1750-1850. (all photographs by the author for Hyperallergic) 19th century whalers could be at sea for years, and for ...
FAIRBANKS — The art of scrimshaw — carving and painting on ivory — dates back to the mid-1700s and the whalers roaming the seas at that time. These stout souls used whale’s teeth, baleen, walrus tusks ...
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