Artist/Maker
Manapsal, Faustino
Title
Draftman's/carpenter's triangle
Mediumwhale skeletal bone
Dimensions2 7/8 × 1/4 × 8 7/8 in. (7.3 × 0.6 × 22.5 cm)
Donor credit lineKendall Whaling Museum Collection Transfer
Object number2001.100.299
Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum
DescriptionA panbone carpenter's triangle ornately monochrome engraved on both sides by Faustino Manapsal. The triangle has a 72-degree right angle with the edge calibreated in inches and fractions and is decorated with leafy ornaments, a book, a flag, a sword, a pen, a gun, an envelope, and an inkwell and inscribed "F. MANAPSAL" and "1906."ProvenanceW.H. Tripp, 10/29/1956; Kendall Whaling Museum; NBWMOn View
Not on view
1800-1880
Bangs, Eli
Purrington, Caleb Pierce
Lemuel David Eldred
DeMontigny, Clarence W.
