Apaflo Loc: Anchorage, Alaska

In the True-Macro Photography forum user Lighting posted some really fascinating images of vertebrae bones from a fish.

I have something that is related, but goes off in a very different direction. As Lighting did, I think it would be the most fun if these are posted without exactly saying what they are until after a few comments allow people's imagination to have a shot.

Here are three images. There are others, plus different but related images, and later I'll post a link to where they can be seen.

http://apaflo.com/joesmuseum/d3s_5269.s.jpg

http://apaflo.com/joesmuseum/d3s_5284.s.jpg

The last one provides a perspective not in the first two.

http://apaflo.com/joesmuseum/d3s_5295.s.jpg

Murray Loc: New Westminster

Eskimo (or Inuit ) bone carvings

Macronaut Loc: Redondo Beach,Ca.

Whale bone carvings?

Nikonian72 Loc: Chico CA

Inupiat whale vertebrae carvings.

Apaflo Loc: Anchorage, Alaska

Yup. That is specifically it. Those are vertebrae from a Bowhead whale.

An interesting size comparison to the macro shots that Lighting posted of small fish vertebrae.

Note that one of the carvings has a "button" on the lower lip. That is a male. Another one has a tattoo stripe down the middle of the lower lip, and that is a woman. The third has no gender identifying marks.

These are all art works collected by Joe "Joe The Waterman" Shults and are on display in Joe's Museum. He is a collector of trivia... including a lot of non-trivial stuff! It's a 30 plus year collection of Art and artifacts, stuff from the beach, or whatever strikes his fancy.

I've put a few pictures of Joe's stuff on my web page,

Joe's Museum

Lighting

The vertebrae carvings are huge compared to salmon vertebrae. Joe's museum has some carvings that remind me of the carvings at the Mystic Connecticut museum that whalers made on whale bones. Thanks for posting this Tangent thread. :) BTW, when I click on the yellow smilie, a smilie doesn't appear but :) does. Is there a way to get the yellow smilie to appear? Thanks
Surprise to me, the smilie now appears so I guess the problem is resolved