Federal prosecutors said 69-year-old Pedro Huertas of Pasadena, California pleaded guilty to transporting a series of ivory carvings across the U.S.-Canada border in July 2021.
For 30 years, scrimshander Gary Tonkin, 74, scratched away on the jaw bone and teeth of a sperm whale, creating intricate engravings telling the story of an American whaling ship, The Kathleen, that went from hunter to hunted.