About 300 years ago bored sailors created beautiful art etched in bone. Scrimshaw is the art of engraving pictures and designs into whale bones and teeth. Maurice Wheeler is a scrimshander and is determined to keep this "almost" lost American art alive. Maurice has a life-long love of the sea and he keeps it alive in his shop in Norcross, Georgia. I guess you call it down south scrimshaw. Tiny scratches smaller than a human hair create images of people, sailing ships and mythical creatures. Scrimshaw is the only original American art form and Maurice Wheeler is keeping it alive. This story aired on WSB-TV Channel 2 Action News in 1978.

This was America in the 1970s.

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