Nets for catching beluga whales hanging from wooden fences, Cook Inlet area, Alaska. From verso: "Nets which are thrown across entrance of river channel after beluga whales have come in at high tide to feed on small schools of fish, preventing...
Caption: Clad in one piece water proof suits two butchers get into a hole cut in the whales stomach and proceed to carve the meat and throw it to the women on the ice on shore.
S.R. Bernardi photographs formerly known as The Gertrude Lusk...
58 second film clip, color silent. From title frame: "Moving Images Collection". Film show whales surfacing at a breathing hole in the ice, the hole is surrounded by people watching and filming them.
Title taken from verso. Three men with captured beluga whales, Theodore River in Cook Inlet area, Alaska. Also from verso: "Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society." 1919. Original photograph size: 4 1/4" x 3".
View of man towing dead beluga whales with boat from Theodore Creek to Beluga River, Alaska. From verso: "Stranded at low tide. Towing belugas from Theodore Creek to Alaska Com[mercia]l B[ui]ld[in]gs on Beluga River. 1919. Joe Magill on boat."...
Title taken from label on matting. Ivory and walrus tusk bookends with figures of whales carved at Saint Lawrence Island, on display in Juneau, Alaska. Photographer's number 8318. 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size: 8 1/8" x...
Man standing over beluga whales stranded on mud flats, Cook Inlet, Alaska. From verso: "They strand where the tide ebbs and are then shot with high powered rifles. This gives a fine idea of the whole story except the nets. [Property of] Cook Inlet...
Title taken from verso. Beluga whales on mud flats, Theodore River, Cook Inlet area, Alaska. Also from verso: "Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society." 1919. Original photograph size: 4 1/2" x 3 1/2".
Photograph shows a Native Alaskan man wearing seal fur pants and a fur ruffed hood lying in a dead whales mouth. The whale looks to be partially pulled up onto the ice but mostly in the water.
Title taken from verso. Two whale hunters watch for whales while the rest of the hunters sleep in a tent, near Barrow, Alaska. Also from verso: "Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society. 8 miles out of Pt. Barrow. 1921." 1921. Photographer: Arthur...
Title from verso. Photograph of a camp at Cape Smythe, Alaska. Visible are several skin or canvas tents, small wooden structures or piles of baggage and an observation tower, probably for spotting whales.
35 second, color/silent, film clip of a whale hunt, 1951-1959. The men look for whales with the aid of a telescope, shoot a small white whale, pull it to shore with some type of grappling hook, and eventually pull it onto shore with ropes. A...
Title taken from verso. Whales hunters sleeping in their clothes in tent, Point Barrow, Alaska, with a walrus hide for a mattress. From information with photo: "Whale hunters sleap [sic] in their clothing using a walrus hide for a mattress. Barrow...
Title taken from front. View of inflated seal carcasses for use as floats on sled in front of tent at camp in Northern Alaska, with children in background at right. "Seal floats" were used to keep whales afloat after they were shot during hunts....
View of seal carcasses resting on upside down boat on beach in northern Alaska. "Seal floats" made from seal carcasses were used to keep whales afloat after they were shot during hunts. 1960's? Photographer: James Leveque. Original photograph size:...