Suitors in the 18th and 19th centuries often carved love tokens out of whatever material was at hand. According to the National Museum of Wales, a cow horn carved with intricate patterns in its ...

WÀSEISEI, ALSO KNOWN AS WÀSEKASEKA; Wàseisei are necklaces made from slivers cut from Sperm Whale teeth. These elaborate ... resulted in the greater production of valuable objects being made from ...

Nancy Shoemaker considers the four main products harvested in the nineteenth-century Pacific sperm whale trade: oil, spermaceti, ambergris, and teeth. Arguing that the first three were considered ...