Featured Carved White Whale

Discussion in 'Tribal Art' started by AntiqueBytes, Sep 12, 2024.

  1. AntiqueBytes

    AntiqueBytes Well-Known Member

    I know nothing about this. It doesn't seem to be signed but it has a small more original sticker at the bottom, and the next store put a label on top of that which was removed.

    It is 6 & 1/2 inches long and of a heavy stone.

    There was a similar carved white swan that was about the same size but looked like the work of a different hand. That has a similar label that says, "KSCCA 707"

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  2. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    Souvenir of Somewhere is all I've got.
     
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  3. Potteryplease

    Potteryplease Well-Known Member

    "Whosoever of ye raises me a white-headed whale with a wrinkled brow and a crooked jaw... he shall have this gold ounce, my boys!”

    --Captain Ahab
     
  4. AntiqueBytes

    AntiqueBytes Well-Known Member

    I have that in writing now.

    With many witnesses.
     
  5. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    not any native carving that I know of......:sorry::sorry:
     
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  6. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    I almost looks like the head from a golf club!
     
  7. AntiqueBytes

    AntiqueBytes Well-Known Member

    I kind of think it looks like a a white-headed whale with a wrinkled brow and a crooked jaw, myself.
     
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  8. Potteryplease

    Potteryplease Well-Known Member

    Alas, I have no Spanish Gold doubloon from Ecuador, which is actually what Ahab nails to the mast of the Pequod.

    And of course, it's Ahab himself who first sights MD on each of the three days he's seen.

    But I digress....
     
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  9. hunt2

    hunt2 Well-Known Member

    google on : african soapstone whale. you see lots of them.
     
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  10. J Dagger

    J Dagger Well-Known Member

    Good for whipping at home intruders I’d think!
     
  11. AntiqueBytes

    AntiqueBytes Well-Known Member

    But mine looks like outsider art.

    Or the work of a undiscovered tribe.

    I think at least it has that going for it.
     
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  12. Figtree3

    Figtree3 What would you do if you weren't afraid?

    Love it! It would make a nice mascot near the computer, for deep diving in research projects.
     
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