A Whaling Scene, etched by master scrimshander, Ray Caruso, on a 9" by 3" fossil walrus sled runner seated atop its custom-made Black Walnut base.  Could it have been from the journey described below by Herman Melville?

From Moby-Dick or the Whale ... "As he stood hovering over you half suspended in air, so wildly and eagerly peering towards the horizon, you would have thought him some prophet or seer beholding the shadows of Fate, and by those wild cries announcing their coming.

'There she blows! there! there! there! she blows! she blows!' 'Where-away?' 'On the lee-beam, about two miles off! a school of them!' Instantly all was commotion.

'Lower away then; d'ye hear?' shouting across the deck. 'Lower away there, I say.'

Such was the thunder of his voice, that spite of their amazement the men sprang over the rail; the sheaves whirled round in the blocks; with a wallow, the three boats dropped into the sea; while, with a dexterous, off-handed daring, unknown in any other vocation, the sailors, goat-like, leaped down the rolling ship's side into the tossed boats below."