Doug Perrine / Historic scrimshaw work, Sperm whale teeth decorated with whaling scenes, Azores, Atlantic

Ingrid Visser / Pacific Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens) tusk, scrimshaw depicting a walrus on ice, Kamchataka, Bering Sea, Russia

Colin Monteath / Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus) teeth with Scrimshaw artwork sitting atop whale vertebrae, dates from 1840's whaling era, Fyffe Historic House, Kaikoura, New Zealand

Todd Pusser / Carved and decorated Sperm whale tooth {Physeter macrocephalus} scrimshaw

Flip Nicklin / Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus) researcher with scrimshaws, Hawaii

Flip Nicklin / Young woman working on scrimshaw while proprietor of store oversees, Maui, Hawaii

Flip Nicklin / Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus) teeth carved with scrimshaw artwork of whales and whaling vessels

Flip Nicklin / Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus) tooth with Scrimshaw artwork of whaling, Hawaii

Flip Nicklin / Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus) tooth carved with scrimshaw artwork of whales and whaling vessels

Flip Nicklin / Scrimshaw with inscription reading, A sharp eye for the white whale

Flip Nicklin / Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus) caught by whalers depicted in Scrimshaw