ThinkTank
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
SSTF@lemmy.world to HistoryArtifacts@piefed.socialEnglish · 2 days ago

19th-century Inuit artifact from the Bering Sea region, crafted from walrus ivory to depict a polar bear carrying its cub.

lemmy.world

message-square
13
link
fedilink
209

19th-century Inuit artifact from the Bering Sea region, crafted from walrus ivory to depict a polar bear carrying its cub.

lemmy.world

SSTF@lemmy.world to HistoryArtifacts@piefed.socialEnglish · 2 days ago
message-square
13
link
fedilink

Source.

alert-triangle
You must log in or # to comment.
  • Naz@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    1 day ago

    • Etterra@discuss.online
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 day ago

      That “polar bear” has seen some shit.

  • AeronMelon@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    33
    ·
    2 days ago

    “You remember what a Polar Bear looks like, right?”

    “Oh yeah, don’t worry about it.”

    • danekrae@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      16
      ·
      2 days ago

      I have a feeling, those who got close enough to see the details, didn’t get a chance to sculpt.

    • wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      2 days ago

      In the artist’s defense, they’d only just returned from an expo w/ some illuminated text scribes, so 💁🏽‍♂️

  • solidsmoke@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    2 days ago

    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
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      2 days ago

      Lotsa unicorns way back then. Hung.

      edit: meant “hunh”, but I’m leaving it.

      • Deacon@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        2 days ago

        Unicorns just have the same horn down there. It’s all one diagonally placed bone all the way through.

        • wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          2 days ago

          IIRC, horns are keratin and antlers are bone. ☝🏼

  • KraeuterRoy@feddit.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    2 days ago

    Looks like it was carved out of a potato - neat!

  • exaybachae@startrek.website
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • Ioughttamow@fedia.io
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    2 days ago

    Mondays, amirite?

  • username_1@programming.dev
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    edit-2
    1 day ago

    deleted by creator

    • SSTF@lemmy.worldOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      edit-2
      2 days ago

      No, the 1800s. The modern ones. Or moderner anyway.

HistoryArtifacts@piefed.social

historyartifacts@piefed.social

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]

Just a community for everyone to share artifacts, reconstructions, or replicas for the historically-inclined to admire!

Generally, an artifact should be 100+ years old, but this is a flexible requirement if you find something rare and suitably linked to an era of history, not a strict rule. Anything over 100 is fair game regardless of rarity.

OTHER COMMS IN THE HISTORYVERSE:

  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 44 users / day
  • 603 users / week
  • 1.28K users / month
  • 1.46K users / 6 months
  • 1 local subscriber
  • 882 subscribers
  • 323 Posts
  • 510 Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • lumpenproletariat@quokk.au
  • PugJesus@piefed.social
  • BE: 0.19.13
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org