EditorialWhalers harpooning a bowhead whale a, Balaena mysticetus, and cachelot or pot whale b, Physeter macrocephalus. Chromolithograph from Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert's Natural History (Naturgeschichte), Schreiber, Munich, 1886.
EditorialWhite cross-lined ware bowl illustrating a man harpooning a hippo, Predynastic, Naqada II, ca. 3650?3500 B.C., From Egypt, Pottery, paint, H: 8.5 cm (3 3/8 in.); diam: 12.7 cm (5 in.).
EditorialWhalers harpooning a bowhead whale a, Balaena mysticetus, and cachelot or pot whale b, Physeter macrocephalus. Chromolithograph from Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert's Natural History (Naturgeschichte), Schreiber, Munich, 1886.