These goggles, crafted by the Thule people who lived in Alaska and northern Canada around 800 to 1600, are a very early ...

The initial design for a new sculpture, inspired by an engraved walrus tusk, has been revealed as ... reflect the area's seafaring heritage with carvings of marine life and contemporary stories.

Each is a rumpled portrait of buckteeth and whiskers, deep scars and bloodshot ... But they have to hit you with their tusks to figure out what you are. And for a walrus to hit one of us can ...

Morphologists at the Lab often receive uniquely carved ivory items that have been imported with little or no documentation. In recent years, analysts examined several purported ivory tusks suspected ...

MOSCOW, July 30. /TASS/. Domodedovo customs officers have found the tusks of an endangered walrus species in a passenger’s luggage, Russia’s Federal Customs Service reported. According to it ...

In the Inuktitut language, the goggles are known as iggaak. Carved from walrus ivory, the goggles were made sometime between 800 and 1200. The eyewear measures 5 inches (12.7 centimeters ...