The Uelen bone carving workshop produced a collection of walrus tusks engraved on a patriotic theme, the Chukotka news agency reported on November 12.
The thematic collection includes stories dedicated to the participation of local residents in the Great Patriotic War and a special military operation in Ukraine.
“We are patriots and we could not ignore this issue and that is why we created a thematic collection. “It is dedicated to our residents, to our soldiers who are now doing their military duty back home in special operations, and to those who help them here.”– said the director of the Uelen bone carving workshop, Alexandra Nypevgi.
We remind you that walrus tusks are obtained in two ways: by hunting walruses (according to quota) and in colonies, from corpses. After the walruses leave their colony, the carcasses of animals that died in a stampede or for some other reason remain on the shore.
In empty walrus colonies, coastal Chukchi clean the carcasses, dragging them with heavy equipment to special places – the so-called “feeding points” for polar bears. But before transporting the carcasses, the walruses have their tusks “removed.”
Not only the tusks are extracted from the walruses, but also the baculum, the bony penis.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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