Treasures of Hawai‘i
Bishop Museum
The State Museum of Natural and Cultural History
Honolulu, Hawai‘i

Boat Fender

(18k)

Bishop Museum Director W.T. Brigham, trying to collect everything connected with the whaling industry, obtained this boat fender made from a whale penis.
Purchased in 1904 at a cost of $10.

Feather lei

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