2001.100.1175

OA Public Domain

Title

Whale eye

Mediumeyeball, glass, metal, formaldehyde

Dimensions[H] __[W] __[D] __[Dia] __[L]2 1/8" o.a.

Donor credit lineKendall Whaling Museum Collection Transfer

Object number2001.100.1175

Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum

DescriptionEye of a sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) in a glass jar with screw-on metal lid, in formaline solution (formaldehyde). Recovered by William H. Tripp from a whale taken by the schooner John R. Manta of New Bedford in 1925.ProvenanceSchooner John R. Manta, 1925; William H. Tripp, New Bedford, 1925.

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2001.100.11165_Box List.pdf

KWM Loose Manuscript Collection

1725-1960

Mss56_SeriesO_Subseries1.pdf

Business records collection,

1745-1925

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KWM Whaling History Symposiums

Logbook of the John R. Manta (Schooner) of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by Joseph F. Edwards, keeper unknown, on three voyages from 1923 February 28-1927 July 14

Logbook of the John R. Manta (Schooner) of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by Joseph F. Edwards, keeper unknown, on three voyages from 1923 February 28-1927 July 14

John R. Manta (Schooner)

Early 1930

[Knox Family papers :

Knox family

1846-1941

John R. Manta (Schooner)

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[Richard Kugler Papers :

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Charles W. Morgan (Bark)

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[Ship Liverpool's Paid Bills Outward 1847] :

Wilcox, Thomas,--whaling agent--1822-1913,

1847

John R. Manta (Schooner)

9/1925

John R. Manta (Schooner)

9/1925