 But recently, the museum acquired a piece that bends the rules of this folk art tradition. Instead of using the customary whalebone, the artist, Duke Riley, engraves maritime scenes on plastic trash recovered from the ocean. His work challenges our sense of comfort with the amount of plastic that we consume. Our South Coast Bureau reporter, Ben Burke, has more on this story. The Scrimshaw Gallery at the New Bedford Whaling Museum is dark and cool, like a ship's cabin.