EditorialOkvik, Native American, Winged Object Fragment, c. 300, walrus ivory stained black by mineral (graphite) seepage, engraved surfaces, wooden inlays, 1 3/4 x 3 1/2 x 1 in. (4.4 x 8.9 x 2.5 cm).
EditorialPacific Eskimos. The Chugach. Waterproof jacket of seal or walrus intestine made by the Inuit, 1775-1800. Alaska, United States of America. North America. Piece collected during a Spanish scientific expedition, 18th century. Museum of the Americas. Mad...
EditorialPart of gaming board for "hneftalfl", a game of siege already popular in the Viking Age. Chessmen of baked clay, 15th century. Dice made of walrus tusk, wooden chessman (King). Historical Museum. Oslo. Norway.
EditorialChugach man of Prince William's Sound in conical decorated hat, nose ornament, and labrets of walrus ivory in his lower lip. Nootka man with tattooed brow and nose ring (both from Captain Cook's Voyages). Lithograph by Karl Joseph Brodtmann from Heinri...
EditorialWalrus, Odobenus rosmarus, and West Indian manatee, Trichechus manatus (vulnerable). Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Frederic Cuvier's "Dictionary of Natural Science: Mammals," Paris, France, 1816. Illustration by J. G. Pretre, engraved...
Editorial Fredrik Walsoe, a real estate developer whose boat was boarded and damaged by Freya, the young female walrus which roamed the Oslo fjord in recent weeks, in Oslo, Norway on Aug. 17, 2022. (David B. Torch/The New York Times)
EditorialPassport card from the Northern part of the Atlantic Ocean with the Arctic, North Sea and Baltic Sea Passport card From the North Sea part of the Noort Zee Beginning van der Neus. to: Nova Zemla (title on object), Passport card of the Northern part of ...
EditorialScrimshaw: Walrus Tusk. Dated: 1941. Dimensions: overall: 40.6 x 50.9 cm (16 x 20 1/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 5" long; 2 1/4" wide. Medium: watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink on paper.
EditorialScrimshaw: Walrus Tusk. Dated: 1941. Dimensions: overall: 45.9 x 59 cm (18 1/16 x 23 1/4 in.) Original IAD Object: 5" long. Medium: watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink on paper.
EditorialPick-axe made with a walrus tusk, stone hatchet of Alaska, wooden instrument with claws used by the Chukchi people to hunt walrus, tomb of the Unalaskans, and baidar (boat), dress and bow used by natives on both continents at the Bering Straits.From Jo...