Inuit Carved Soapstone Narwahl with Bone Tusk antique engraving sea polyps or flowering branches

or flowering branches

Old tape on the top two corners and center bottom and a little smudging all over

Only very light wear

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

painterly application

Inuit Carved Soapstone Narwahl with Bone Tusk antique engraving sea polyps or flowering branchesWhat 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