What scrimshaw — and a female pirate — can tell us about 19th-century whaling

On view at Cape Cod's Cahoon Museum of American Art, this largely forgotten folk art form -- turning discarded whale bones and teeth into novel canvases -- is filled with stories about a finite period in American history.

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