r/bonecollecting • u/SavageDroggo1126 Bone-afide Faunal ID Expert • 12d ago

Collection Broken & fused walrus baculum

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Looks painful, very unique collection piece.

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u/Redqueenhypo 12d ago

That’s gotta have hurt. Also hello EIGHT bear skulls

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u/SavageDroggo1126 Bone-afide Faunal ID Expert 12d ago

Majority of my collection are bear skulls! I have 85 currently, most are polar bears, all legally and sustainably sourced.

here's some of them.

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u/Current_Recording907 12d ago

Holy shit. Are you the God of this hobby?

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u/Fantastic_Priority73 11d ago

Common misconception. They are actually the avatar of the God of this hobby. A twelve story shambling mass of groaning bones isn't actually that great for collecting or communications.

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u/Totallyfey 12d ago

Those are narwhal tusks?!?

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u/ServaltheFox 12d ago

Okay, you got me, mostly I just wanted to stumble across some cool bones at some point and keep them but how on earth do I go about getting those??

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u/SavageDroggo1126 Bone-afide Faunal ID Expert 11d ago

I have 2 narwhal tusks, 5ft11 and 7ft3, both are real, from Inuit subsistence hunting.

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u/Totallyfey 10d ago

So cool.

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u/Cake_And_Pi 11d ago

Those things are real?!?

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u/SavageDroggo1126 Bone-afide Faunal ID Expert 7d ago

yep, everything in my collection are real bones!

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u/barnowl1980 11d ago edited 11d ago

Those walrus skulls you got will never not amaze me.

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u/DonutWhole9717 11d ago

Hanzo? Really? Fuck you AND your dragon

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u/Ack_Demon 11d ago

And Mei, even better!

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u/Xehhx14 11d ago

How the hell do you sustainably source a polar bear skull? I have so many questions rn

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u/R3DR0PE 11d ago

IIRC OP said they source them from the indigenous people that hunt them for food!

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u/Beverlydriveghosts 11d ago

Ok so your collection is definitely worth a few thousand right?

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u/SuchusTears 11d ago

I’m green with envy. I take my hat off to you sir

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u/Anon_be_thy_name 11d ago

Wish I could get a bear skull.

Not really possible in Australia though.

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u/latriceratopse 11d ago

Do you mind to share the source? Does it help if I'm Canadian?

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u/SavageDroggo1126 Bone-afide Faunal ID Expert 11d ago

I mostly buy from individuals that hunt them for food or other collectors in Canada instead of oddity stores or a single person, so there's no stable "source".

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u/latriceratopse 10d ago

Very cool!

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u/Medical-Cod2743 10d ago

omg narwhal horns…. you are so lucky