Living luxuriously in Ignorance:
Then and Now
Dutch Whaling: At Whose Expense?
Information About the Whalebone Plaques
Baleen Waste Piece from the Eighteenth century
Description:
Dating to the 18th century,
Baleen material,
Photograph author: Anneke Dekker,
Afdeling Archeologie BMA/Amsterdams
Historisch Museum
Further reading:
"Whales, Walruses, and Elephants: Artisans in Ivory,
Baleen, and Other Skeletal Materials
in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam" by Marloes Rijkelijkhuizen, 2009