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I saw the 2019 exhibition the book is based on & found a few photos of the artworks on display:

  1. Carved Narwhal Figure
    Canada, mid-20th c.
    Soapstone & ivory
  2. Narwhal Composition sculpture
    Kakee Ningeeochiak
    Cape Dorset, Canada, n.d.
    Soapstone & caribou antler
  3. Allangua (Narwhal)
    Tim Pitsiulak
    Cape Dorset, Canada, 2016
    Reproduction of Lithograph
  4. A Woman Who Became a Narwhal
    Germaine Arnaktauyok
    Iqaluit, Canada, 1993
    Etching & aquatint

photo of artwork #2 on display at show
photo of artwork #3 on display at show
photo of artwork #4 on display at show

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Happy !
A 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/

illustration of a single-tusked narwhal along with a skull of a two-tusked narwhal from George Shaw's

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