Inuit Carved Soapstone Narwahl with Bone Tusk glowing Lobster: 2 1/2" across x

Lobster: 2 1/2" across x 1/4" tall (standing on 3 sweet little legs)

and demonstrating the wonderful ingenuity and design sensibilities of their makers

4 3/4" long x 4 3/8" wide x 7/8" deep

Both are of the same design--lotus on the front and Japanese characters on the back

Inuit Carved Soapstone Narwahl with Bone Tusk glowing Lobster: 2 1/2" across xWhat a miraculous creature is the narwhal (or narwhale, or Unicorn of the Sea!), possessing a sense of the mythological, but real, found in the Arctic waters around Greenland, Canada, and Russia. The spiraled tusk is actually an elongated tooth, which, almost exclusively in males, can can grow up to 10 feet long. It is most commonly a left tooth, but occasionally a right tusk develops too, giving some narwhal two tusks! I can't help but to think of