Monday, June 23, 2008

Tuugaalik

The Inuit call the narwhal ‘the one that is good at curving itself to the sky’.

Narwhals

Music: ‘Fljótavík’, Sigur Rós

Posted by Bad Faery on 06/23 at 10:19 PM
Posted in: Drawing and Illustration •

Comments:

Hi Bad Faery! I’ve never heard of these things and just looked it up - I can’t believe that horn thing, it looks like a unicorn’s! LOVE your drawings, and I’ve got to say blue is one of my favourite colours. :)

Posted by Jess on 06/25 at 03:50 PM


Hi Jess, yes, sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction.

So like unicorn horns that long ago fishermen would sell them as such. Because narwhals only live in arctic waters few people knew of their existence so the horns were taken as proof of the existence of unicorns.  Worth their weight in gold, they exchanged hands for fabulous amounts of money.

Thank you for visiting my little blog and for your kind words about my narwhals:)

Posted by Bad Faery on 06/26 at 12:03 AM


Oh how funny. I looked at this and thought of Unicorns. I thought is this the Unicorn of the fish. So it is real? Love your drawings.

Posted by Cris in Oregon on 07/11 at 04:16 AM



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