Artifacts/Sperm Whale Tooth

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Artifact
Sperm Whale Tooth
Type
Archaeological
Maker/Artist(s) Unknown
Date(s) 1800
Holdings
Collection of Massey University Wellington
Curator(s)
User:Bronwyn Holloway-Smith?
Uploaders(s)
User:Bronwyn Holloway-Smith
License(s)
Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license
File(s)
media:sperm-whale-tooth.stl , media:sperm-whale-tooth.aoi


alt = Sperm Whale Tooth by Bronwyn_Holloway-Smith

Sperm Whale Tooth

Tooth pendants are important cultural objects throughout the Pacific. Whale ivory and bone were taken from beached whales.*

Unknown maker/artist, date 1800.

Artistic and Curatorial Process

These objects are replicas of artifacts imagined as lost, hidden or misregistered during the Museum of New Zealand's tenure in the former Museum Building on Buckle St, now occupied by Massey University's College of Creative Arts. The objects have been created through a process of drawing, digital 3D rendering, and finally printing with an Open Source 3-dimensional printer – the RepRap.

Note

This is an experimental web-exhibition, and as such is a quasi-virtual mirror of Bronwyn_Holloway-Smith's work. Her website and project page is: http://bronwyn.co.nz/projects/gifts.html

* Some text courtesy of Wikipedia, December 2009 All text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License.