art_history_animalia, 1 month ago to worldwithoutus #BookRecommendation for #NarwhalDay : #Narwhal: Revealing an #Arctic Legend (2017) https://amzn.to/3xxcgBE via #AmazonAssociates #NarwhalAppreciationDay
#BookRecommendation for #NarwhalDay : #Narwhal: Revealing an #Arctic Legend (2017) https://amzn.to/3xxcgBE via #AmazonAssociates #NarwhalAppreciationDay
art_history_animalia, 1 month ago I saw the 2019 exhibition the #narwhal book is based on & found a few photos of the #Inuit artworks on display: Carved Narwhal Figure Canada, mid-20th c. Soapstone & ivory Narwhal Composition sculpture Kakee Ningeeochiak Cape Dorset, Canada, n.d. Soapstone & caribou antler Allangua (Narwhal) Tim Pitsiulak Cape Dorset, Canada, 2016 Reproduction of Lithograph A Woman Who Became a Narwhal Germaine Arnaktauyok Iqaluit, Canada, 1993 Etching & aquatint #NarwhalDay #NarwhalAppreciationDay photo of artwork #2 on display at show photo of artwork #3 on display at show photo of artwork #4 on display at show
I saw the 2019 exhibition the #narwhal book is based on & found a few photos of the #Inuit artworks on display:
photo of artwork #2 on display at show photo of artwork #3 on display at show photo of artwork #4 on display at show
art_history_animalia, 1 month ago to random Happy #NarwhalDay! A #narwhal tusk is the upper left canine tooth that grows through the lip. Sometimes, the right one does the same, resulting in a 2-tusked individual, as illustrated by English naturalist George Shaw (1751 – 1813): George Shaw's The British Miscellany (1806) https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28913677#page/54/ George Shaw's Zoological Lectures (1809) https://biodiversitylibrary.org/item/126483#page/279/mode/ #NarwhalAppreciationDay illustration of a single-tusked narwhal along with a skull of a two-tusked narwhal from George Shaw's
Happy #NarwhalDay! A #narwhal tusk is the upper left canine tooth that grows through the lip. Sometimes, the right one does the same, resulting in a 2-tusked individual, as illustrated by English naturalist George Shaw (1751 – 1813): George Shaw's The British Miscellany (1806) https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28913677#page/54/ George Shaw's Zoological Lectures (1809) https://biodiversitylibrary.org/item/126483#page/279/mode/
#NarwhalAppreciationDay
illustration of a single-tusked narwhal along with a skull of a two-tusked narwhal from George Shaw's