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 caption. A group of young boys watch as hunters pull a beluga whale onto the beach. Several people are in an umiak pulled up onto the beach beside the whale. Original photograph size: 2 1/2 x 4 1/4 inch.
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."...
Beluga whale carcasses lined up along beach after hunt at Nome, Alaska, with women and children nearby and boat and drying racks in background. 1950's? Photographer: Frank Whaley. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".
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 dead Beluga whale laying on its' side in the water almost on the beach. A motorboat is partly pulled up onto the beach close to the whale.
Photograph shows men wearing kuspuks with fur around the hoods, mukluks, and other winter garb pulling a whale up out of the water and over the snow and ice. There is a low boat on the shore to the right of the...
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 from caption: Eskimo cuting up whale at Point Hop Alaska. Photograph shown a Native Alaskan man and another man siting inside a whale in Point Hope Alaska. There are other men standing behind the whale. Original is 5.5 x 3.5 in.