By:Bruce Perry (bperry) on May 23, 2008
Tags: museum , whaling , nantucket , whale , skeleton

This sperm whale skeleton is on display in the Whaling Museum of the Nantucket Historical Association. It came from a 46 foot long bull sperm whale that beached on Jan 1, 1998 at Sconset's Low Beach.

Many Nantucketers participated in the messy process of extracting and preparing the bones for display. Tools from the NHA's collection of whaling implements were used in this process and found to work remarkably well. The museum shows a movie about this project regularly.

Read more about the Whaling Museum here:

http://www.nha.org/history/hn/HNwhalingmuseum.html

More on sperm whales here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm_whale

This image made with the permission of the museum and the kind assistance of museum staff.

Date Taken: May 23, 2008
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