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Waif Flag

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Martha's Vineyard Museum

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About this artifact

If sailors were hunting more than one whale, they needed to mark the location of those they had killed. This red waif flag would have been stabbed into the dead and floating whale for later retrieval.

Dimensions:
Height: 82"

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