Really, I'm also not an idiot! I'm not even sheltered! I grew up in Florida and took marine biology classes. I read a lot. I take my kid to the zoo and the aquarium and the museum. I used to subscribe to National Geographic. But, somehow, these escaped me.
Post by aprilsails on Oct 19, 2013 15:48:28 GMT -5
I've seen narwhal in real life and came *this close* to buying one of their horns that was carved by traditional artists.
If you buy them in the community they cost about $100/ft carved. At galleries in Toronto the same tusk goes for $1,000/ft. The artist still gets only 10%.
In Resolute Bay, the traditionally the main food supply for the Inuit was narwhal and beluga whales (the population is healthy in that area). They take what they need, use the whole whale, and will carve the tusks to ship out. DH thought it was creepy. I wanted a unicorn horn! The one I was looking at was 8'.