Sentence examples for whale teeth from inspiring English sources

She plunked a blue plastic bag containing half a dozen sperm whale teeth on the table.

Signatures are red flags, too; few Victorian carvers inscribed their names or initials on whale teeth.

My favorite display was of pictures of women etched on sperm whale teeth.

Wristlets and anklets of whale teeth or bone and necklaces and fillets of leis (interwoven flowers) were common ornaments.

A special permit is required to bring sperm whale teeth into Fiji, Ms. Tawaka wrote in an email.

The new rules will also apply to rhino horn, whale teeth, tortoise shell and certain woods that are also regulated under the 1973 Endangered Species Act.

Inside, Joseph Baivatu, 29, prepares to make the next payment on a layaway for something very special: a large sperm whale tooth.

A spectacular necklace of carved ivory human shaped figures was presented to Lady Gordon along with giant tubua, which are ornaments made from whale tooth.

Shipping whale tooth ivory into or out of the United States has been illegal for about 30 years, he said, and plenty of antique ivory that predated the prohibition remains available to scrimshanders.

Nancy Druckman, director of American folk art at Sotheby's in New York, said that a "fairly significant" market existed for scrimshaw, particularly among collectors of marine art, for whom it represents "the jewel in the crown". In June, she noted, a whale tooth engraved with a naked odalisque figure sold for $45,000, a record for scrimshaw.

In New Zealand, the Māori know them as "rei puta"; such whale tooth pendants were rare objects because sperm whales were not actively hunted in traditional Māori society.