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SSTF@lemmy.world to HistoryArtifacts@piefed.socialEnglish ·
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19th-century Inuit artifact from the Bering Sea region, crafted from walrus ivory to depict a polar bear carrying its cub.

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

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    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 🫪

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      Lotsa unicorns way back then. Hung.

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

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

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

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            Interesting. What else can you tell us about Unicorn physiology?

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              Pretty horny from top to bottom, and all the switches between. 💁🏽‍♀️

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