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whale of a task. Museum artist Paul Gerachty stands behind a model of a Finback whale and under the actual bones of such a mammal he is reconstructing(...)
whale of a task. Museum artist Paul Gerachty stands behind a model of a Finback whale and under the actual bones of such a mammal he is reconstructing(...)

whale of a task. Museum artist Paul Gerachty stands behind a model of a Finback whale and under the actual bones of such a mammal he is reconstructing(...)

Date9/22/1980
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Original Toronto Star caption: whale of a task. Museum artist Paul Gerachty stands behind a model of a Finback whale and under the actual bones of such a mammal he is reconstructing at the Ontario Science Centre. The dead whale washed ashore in Nova Scotia three years ago. Before the artist got the clean skeleon it went through several curing processes. It was buried at Maple for six months; submerged in Toronto harbor for nien months; and then left on the centre's roof to belach.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0103854F
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