what is scrimshaw
Scrimshaw is the name given to scrollwork, engravings, and carvings done in bone or ivory.round this time is the earliest authenticated pictorial piece of sperm whale scrimshaw (1817). The tooth was inscribed: This is the tooth of a sperm whale that was caught near the Galapagos islands by the crew of the ship Adam [of London], and made 100 barrels of oil in the year 1817..