For hundreds of years before their discovery by Europeans, the narwhal was central to the life and culture of the Inuit people of northern Canada and Greenland, and it remains important to their subsistence today. Due to their dependence on the animal, it has been prevalent in Inuit artwork, of which this sculpture is an … Inuit Carving of a Narwhal

A unicorn horn!?! Not in the traditional sense, at least. This spiraling five-foot “tusk” is a actually the tooth from a male narwhal, a whale species native to Arctic waters and related to the beluga. Due to the influence of ancient lore, the horn of the “sea unicorn” was considered throughout the Middle Ages to … Narwhal Tusk

Les Monstres Marins, or Sea Monsters, is an exploration of the truths and legends of various sea creatures. Landrin explains that the word “monster” does not imply deformity, but rather the evocation of surprise and the stimulation of one’s imagination (pg. 4). A segment of this text is devoted to the narwhal. Landrin illustrates this … Pèche au Narwal

A practicing physician during the late Renaissance in Northern Germany, Paul Ludwig Sachs drafted this monograph on the unicorn, aiming to prove that the narwhal is the true embodiment of the mythical animal. Sachs argues that the narwhal’s tusk is in fact a horn, and not a tooth, possessing the properties attributed to the famed … Monocerologia