Krill from Hashidate Maru

Date1952

MediumDessicated shellfish, glass, cork

Dimensions3 3/4 × 1 3/8 in. (9.5 × 3.5 cm)

Donor credit lineKendall Whaling Museum Collection Transfer

Object number2001.100.1373

Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum

DescriptionKrill (whale food), several specimens in a specimen bottle, corked, with a paper label marked in ink holograph, "E. Superba. sp. C.M. / size Middle 4.5-5.0..." etc. Collected by Lt./Capt. Benjamin Goldberg, U.S. Army, while U.S. Military Ocupational Forces inspector aboard the Japanese floating-factory whaleship Hshidate Maru during the 1950-51 season.

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