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Record 1 2011-10-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Art Supplies
  • Indigenous Arts and Culture
OBS

In Inuit carvings, it could be a vertebrae or a rib, but not a ... baleen.

OBS

baleen: A horny substance growing in the mouth of whales of the Suborder Mysticeti that is especially developed in the right whale and grown in dependent plates from two to twelve feet long attached in two ranks along the upper jaw forming a fringelike sieve to collect and retain food.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériel d'artistes
  • Arts et culture autochtones

Spanish

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