Busk Work

Scrimshaw busk
Unknown maker
United States, 1800-40
Whale bone
Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont, Courtesy of Winterthur Museum 1958.2592

Objects in this exhibition bear witness to people, encounters, and entanglements in American communities. They document makers and consumers, and they illustrate a global story that crosses gender, racial, cultural, social, and geographic boundaries. 

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