An unusual contemporary Makah hat includes a closely fitting inner cap covered by a larger outer layer painted with huge black whale eyes and teeth ($1,500).

Stroking one flipper on the firm flesh of the whale, Sean-Selkie floated forward until he came to the proportionally small whale eye.

"Later on it was whale eyes, then horned frogs in little cages, then finally little marbles with a sea horse frozen inside which he said he got from the Knkmen.

Common shells used for shell dwellers include authentic Neothauma shells, ocean turbo shells, escargot shells, whale eye shells, and Ampullariidae-family shells.

Certain symbolic motifs recur - a female figure in a hoop skirt, a globe, whale eyes, spirals - and there's a portentousness about them that's not inappropriate for Melville's allegorical grandiosity.

Aspartic acid racemization in the whale eye, combined with a harpoon fragment, indicated an age of 211 years for another male, which, if true, would make bowheads the longest-lived extant mammal species.

When he looked up, Emily 7 was bent over staring at him with her watery whale eyes and a mild expression of distress, and Nuñez was crouched at the other end of the table smiling.