Inuit Carved Soapstone Narwahl with Bone Tusk antique engraving sea polyps painterly application

painterly application

or flowering branches

and a small tear at upper right

square on the other) with black and red details (I honestly can't tell how the black and red were achieved)

with some light stains on front and back

Inuit Carved Soapstone Narwahl with Bone Tusk antique engraving sea polyps painterly applicationWhat a miraculous creature is the narwhal (or narwhale, or Unicorn of the Sea!), possessing a sense of the mythological, but real, found in the Arctic waters around Greenland, Canada, and Russia. The spiraled tusk is actually an elongated tooth, which, almost exclusively in males, can can grow up to 10 feet long. It is most commonly a left tooth, but occasionally a right tusk develops too, giving some narwhal two tusks! I can't help but to think of