Tuesday, 1 May 2012

Narwhal


Damon and my latest and last addition to Laputa robot series is Narwhal.

Narwhals are small Arctic whales.
Male has a long forward-pointing spirally twisted tusk developed from one of its teeth.

When I first saw them in a book as a child, I thought they looked quite otherworldly, they were imaginary animal just like unicorns.
I saw a narwhal drawn on a first Japanese copper etching world map in 1792.
I wonder what they thought when they first saw this strange but beautiful animals.

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