Check out a scrimshaw that JFK displayed on his desk in the Oval Office. John F. Kennedy's scrimshaw collection included more than 30 different works.

My Take: Scrimshaw Art. Clip: Season 5 Episode 40 | 6m 46s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Scrimshaw artist Brian Kiracofe on the art of engraving on ivory and bone. Scrimshaw dates back to the ...

Scrimshaw could be decorative, like simple sperm whale teeth, or they could be useful, as in ivory napkin rings, corset busks (stiffeners), swifts for winding yarn or pie crimpers. The sailor’s ...

The Cahoon Museum of American Art on Cape Cod has been diving into the history of scrimshaw. Don't know what that is? Well, you're not alone. This largely forgotten folk art form — created by ...

“The Wider World & Scrimshaw” and Shinnecock artist Courtney M. Leonard’s “BREACH: Logbook 24 | SCRIMSHAW” explore sites of encounter and exchange across the Pacific and Arctic Oceans.

Geoff Bennett: Scrimshaw is a traditional 19th century art form now seen through a much wider context and a contemporary lens. That's the goal of an exhibit which challenges some old assumptions ...

Scrimshaw began in the late 18th or early 19th century as the art of carving whale bone and ivory aboard whale ships. The crew on whalers had plenty of leisure time between sighting and chasing whales ...

Whalemen in the 1800s created scrimshaw, which helped them muse over thrilling adventures at sea. The history of a largely lost folk art form is resurfacing at Cape Cod’s Cahoon Museum of ...

The New Bedford Whaling Museum’s scrimshaw collection, which includes hundreds of whalebone clocks, pie crimpers, musical instruments, canes and umbrellas, is advertised as the largest of its ...