cut from sperm whale panbone, illustrating a flowering plant, a female figure with ringlets flanked by spiral-pattern pillars, and surmounted with geometric devices and a male figure in sailor's clothing flanked by spiral-pattern pillars, surmounted by a gothic arch and geometric devices.
Length 13 3/4 inches.

Hindman is grateful to Stuart Frank, Senior Curator Emeritus of the New Bedford Whaling Museum for his assistance in the cataloging of the scrimshaw offered in this auction.