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  2. Baculum - Wikipedia

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    The oosik is a polished and sometimes carved baculum of these large northern carnivores. Oosiks are also sold as tourist souvenirs. In 2007, a 4.5 ft-long (1.4 m) fossilized penis bone from an extinct species of walrus, believed by the seller to be the largest in existence, was sold for $8,000. [54]

  3. Walrus - Wikipedia

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    The walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) is a large pinniped marine mammal with discontinuous distribution about the North Pole in the Arctic Ocean and subarctic seas of the ...

  4. Inuit art - Wikipedia

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    Very little remains of them, and only a few preserved artifacts carved in ivory could be considered works of art. The Dorset culture, which became culturally distinct around 600 BCE, produced a significant amount of figurative art in the mediums of walrus ivory, bone, caribou antler, and on rare occasion stone. Subjects included birds, bears ...

  5. 'That Is Massive' - Walrus Emerges From Water in South Wales

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    A walrus first spotted off the coast of County Kerry in Ireland in mid-March was seen resting on a slipway on March 31 on the coast of Tenby, Wales.The walrus, affectionately referred to as Wally ...

  6. Ye Olde Curiosity Shop - Wikipedia

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    Display items include an early 19th-century Russian samovar, dozens of totem poles, East Asian weapons, woven cedar mats and fir needle baskets, netsuke, jade carvings, narwhal tusks, and a walrus oosik. [7] Also on display are two mummified human bodies, "Sylvester" and "Sylvia". [7] "Sylvester" (acquired in 1955) functions as an informal ...

  7. Oosik - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 2 June 2016, at 17:20 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply ...

  8. Rescued walrus calf 'sassy' and alert after seemingly being ...

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    A walrus calf seemingly left behind by her herd near Alaska’s northernmost city is alert and “sassy” as she receives care at a nonprofit wildlife response center hundreds of miles away ...

  9. Siberian Yupik - Wikipedia

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    The Siberian Yupik on St. Lawrence Island live in the villages of Savoonga and Gambell, and are widely known for their skillful carvings of walrus ivory and whale bone, as well as the baleen of bowhead whales. These even include some "moving sculptures" with complicated pulleys animating scenes such as walrus hunting or traditional dances.