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the doodle whalers carved into corpses to survive the boredom of murder at sea
mediumWhale teeth and bone, etched with ink or soot
originBorn from idle hands on years-long whaling voyages
bannedMost modern ivory scrimshaw is illegal to sell
presidentialJFK collected it and was buried with a piece
toolkitOften just a sail needle and tobacco juice