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Title: Whalebone lathe Accession Number: 1941.288 Category: SCRIMSHAW & ALLIED ARTS - TOOLS Type: lathe Maker: Place: Date: Circa 1867 Materials: wood; bone; metal Description: Wood and whalebone lathe with wooden carriage with cutting tools 1941.288.1-3. Made (perhaps) and used by Josiah Robinson, circa 1867. See Malley, "Graven by the Fishermen Themselves," pages 126, 127.

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