c/historyartifacts · by setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world · 80d19th-century Inuit artifact from the Bering Sea region, crafted from walrus ivory to depict a polar bear carrying its cub. Source. 217 points · 16 comments · view on lemmy.world
16 Comments
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 80d
“You remember what a Polar Bear looks like, right?”
“Oh yeah, don’t worry about it.”
danekrae@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 80d
I have a feeling, those who got close enough to see the details, didn't get a chance to sculpt.
wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 80d
In the artist's defense, they'd only just returned from an expo w/ some illuminated text scribes, so 💁🏽♂️
solidsmoke@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 80d
Polar bear? Looks to me like they just carved some funny little guys. I'd hate for future archaeologists to find my highschool doodles and decide what animals I must have been depicting
wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 80d
Lotsa unicorns way back then. Hung.
edit: meant "hunh", but I'm leaving it.
deacon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 80d
Unicorns just have the same horn down there. It’s all one diagonally placed bone all the way through.
wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 80d
IIRC, horns are keratin and antlers are bone. ☝🏼
deacon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 78d
Interesting. What else can you tell us about Unicorn physiology?
wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 78d
Pretty horny from top to bottom, and all the switches between. 💁🏽♀️
Naz@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 80d
Etterra@discuss.online · 3 pts · 80d
That "polar bear" has seen some shit.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 80d
'Autism creature carries on its back a smaller autism creature'.
Ioughttamow@fedia.io · 4 pts · 80d
Mondays, amirite?
KraeuterRoy@feddit.org · 3 pts · 80d
Looks like it was carved out of a potato - neat!
exaybachae@startrek.website · 3 pts · 80d
Yeah, sure, those totally look like polar bear faces and bodies....
Did the artist see any polar bears before carving this, or were they blind and working from verbal description?
Personally, I'm petty sure this is a normal example of 19th century porn.
username_1@programming.dev · 2 pts · 80d
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 80d
No, the 1800s. The modern ones. Or moderner anyway.