A dead sperm whale washed ashore at Marfells Beach in Marlborough in 2018. (Video first published in July 2018)A jawbone from an 11-metre long sperm whale has been stolen from a beach north of Okarito on the West Coast. GUINEVERE COLEMAN/DOC A washed up sperm whale on beach near Okarito, north of Franz Josef Glacier. Randall Walker Iwi remove the jaw bone from a dead sperm whale which washed up on Paraparaumu Beach in 2018. DOC and iwi work with whale experts to recover whale bone used for ceremonial purposes.

Source: Stuff April 15, 2019 07:41 UTC