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Sample, whalebone

Collection ID: 
1984.053
Collection: 
Social history
Piece of whalebone or baleen from the Fin Whale (BALAENOPTERA PHYSALUS) stranded on Papa Westray 13/9/1981. (At time of entry in accession register last record on Orkney on Hunda in 1852, 62 ft long). This whale was 45 ft long.