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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. Modern Antiques or Ethnography (~1800 AD or later) (lemmy.world)
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[–] 34 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

“Oh yeah, don’t worry about it.”

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    • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    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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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago* (4 children)

    Lotsa unicorns way back then. Hung.

    edit: meant "hunh", but I'm leaving it.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

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    • [–] 5 points 5 months 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.

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    [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Mondays, amirite?

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    [+] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)
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