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A crew works on creating a life-size, meticulously detailed model of the North Atlantic right whale Phoenix

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Crew Works on Phoenix Model

A crew works on creating a life-size, meticulously detailed model of the North...

Douglas Chilton uses traditional carving tools to shape the Raven Spirit canoe.

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Carving the Canoe

Douglas Chilton uses traditional carving tools to shape the Raven Spirit canoe....

This raven routinely observed master carver Douglas Chilton as he shaped the canoe.

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Raven Watches the Carver

As Chilton prepared the cedar for carving, he noticed a raven with an injured wing...

Sometimes the raven monitored Chilton’s progress from an overhead perch.

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Raven Keeps Watch over Carver

Sometimes the “Watcher,” a raven with an irregular wing, monitored carver...

The canoe traveled more than 4,828 kilometers (3,000 miles) to reach Washington, D.C.

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Raven Spirit’s Journey

The Raven Spirit canoe would eventually travel more than 4,828 kilometers (3,000...

A model marker applies paint to the life-size, meticulously detailed model of the North Atlantic right whale Phoenix.

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Painting the Model of Phoenix

A model marker applies paint to the life-size, meticulously detailed model of the...

Smithsonian scientists apply a plaster bandage cap to a block of rock containing fossils

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Securing the Fossil

Paeleobiologist Dr. Nicholas Pyenson, Curator of Fossil Marine Mammals for the...

a squalodontid skull is dislodged after a plaster jacket is applied

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Dislodging the Fossil

Paeleobiologist Dr. Nicholas Pyenson, Curator of Fossil Marine Mammals for the...

Smithsonian Scientists Dig a Trench Around a squalodontid Skull

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Digging a Trench

Paeleobiologist Dr. Nicholas Pyenson, Curator of Fossil Marine Mammals for the...