| A porcupine road kill between Yellowknife and Hay River provided a good quantity of quills to start off with. |
| Conch are the favorite food for lobster, sting rays, tulip shells, crabs, octopus, turtles and porcupine fish. |
| Among the most beautiful objects depicted are those with woven porcupine quills dyed many colors. |
| The porcupine fish uses a nightmarish disguise and swells with water, which frightens enemies as large as tiger sharks. |
| In short, the male antelope underscores the importance of self-protection, and his spiky mane evokes defense of the sort a porcupine might offer. |
| These elaborately painted masks represent a pair of horned animals, each with a porcupine quill sprouting from its head. |
