[Replica Foods]

MediumPlastic

Donor credit lineKendall Whaling Museum Collection Transfer

Object number2001.100.3848

Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum

DescriptionPlastic effigies of Japanese whale-meat food preparations (based on canned whale meat from Ayukawa), made in the customary Japanese manner as "sample menus" for restaurants (restaurant menu displays); illustrating: (1) baleen whale meat, (2) bottlenose dolphin meat, and (3) pickled blubber.ProvenanceCommissioned in Tokyo by Hisayasu Hatanaka for the KWM.

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