Airbrushed black-and-white 1990s-style illustration of a platypus howling at the moon on a black background.

Platypus - Tote bag

Black / 15" x 16"
$14.99
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Airbrushed black-and-white 1990s-style illustration of a platypus howling at the moon on a black background.
  • Airbrushed black-and-white 1990s-style illustration of a platypus howling at the moon on a black background.
  • Airbrushed black-and-white 1990s-style illustration of a platypus howling at the moon on a black background.
  • Airbrushed black-and-white 1990s-style illustration of a platypus howling at the moon on a black background.
  • Airbrushed black-and-white 1990s-style illustration of a platypus howling at the moon on a black background.
  • Airbrushed black-and-white 1990s-style illustration of a platypus howling at the moon on a black background.
  • Airbrushed black-and-white 1990s-style illustration of a platypus howling at the moon on a black background.
  • Airbrushed black-and-white 1990s-style illustration of a platypus howling at the moon on a black background.
  • Airbrushed black-and-white 1990s-style illustration of a platypus howling at the moon on a black background.
Platypus - Tote bag

Platypus - Tote bag

$14.99
ColorBlack
Size15" x 16"

About the garment

This tote is made from 100% cotton canvas, in black. The design is printed straight onto the bag, not patched or embroidered. Each one is printed one at a time, to order.

  • 100% cotton canvas, in black
  • The design is printed straight onto the bag, not patched or embroidered
  • Printed one at a time, to order

About the design

When the first platypus skin reached London in 1799, naturalists assumed someone had stitched a duck's bill onto a mole and mailed it as a prank. It hadn't been. The bill holds electroreceptors, the tail stores fat, and a hidden spur delivers venom strong enough to drop a dog. It lays eggs, then closes its eyes, ears, and nostrils and hunts entirely by feel.

Aboriginal Dreaming stories cast it as the child of a duck and a lonely water-rat, a bargain neither side honored. Supposedly that's why it belongs nowhere else on earth. On this bag it throws its head back at the moon anyway, as straight-faced as the wolf ever managed. You don't need an explanation. Neither does it.

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