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Scrimshaw tooth, figure of a girl
tooth
SCRIMSHAW & ALLIED ARTS - TEETHmarad; scrimshaw
5.50 x 2.38 x 0
Tooth, one side: etched bowl filled with 3 kinds of leaves, bowl of all over diamond cross hatched pattern, above bowl on right side a leaf and on left side a sprig. Other side: etched figure of standing girl, underskirt in red, at ground level at left a leafy plant, at right a bowl of leaves. Around small end of tooth and at bottom double etched zigzag lines. At lower end of tooth a band of diamond cross hatched lines ending under girl's feet, under girl's feet horizontal hatching.
1939.1767