I had a stuffed animal platypus as one of my childhood toys. Mine was made of rabbit fur. Jesus, so sad. I grew up for a bit in the place they are from. And I had an ootpik too, though I think they are called ookpiks. I called it an ootpik. Do you know those? Mine was made of sealskin. Further sadness. They are an Inuit thing and I’m from Canada but not near any Inuit. I had lots of weird toys. Yup. artywords: an impossible creature rhamphotheca: The “Duckbill” (Platypus), an Impossible Creature from the encyclopedia Cassell’s Book of Knowledge (1930) (scanned by Betty Broadbent)

I had a stuffed animal platypus as one of my childhood toys. Mine was made of rabbit fur. Jesus, so sad. I grew up for a bit in the place they are from. And I had an ootpik too, though I think they are called ookpiks. I called it an ootpik. Do you know those? Mine was made of sealskin. Further sadness. They are an Inuit thing and I’m from Canada but not near any Inuit. I had lots of weird toys. Yup.

artywords:

an impossible creature

rhamphotheca:

The “Duckbill” (Platypus), an Impossible Creature

from the encyclopedia Cassell’s Book of Knowledge (1930)

(scanned by Betty Broadbent)