Whale boats in the Bering Sea wait for a whale to surface.
Caption: 70 foot whale killed by the crew of the Whaler Alexander on the international boundry between the Russian and American Diomede Islands in the Bering Straits. The whale has...
Caption: Commercial whale bone is suspended from the upper jaw bone of the whale instead of teeth this whale had #10,600 worth of bone - five men stood abreast between its jaws. The longest...
Supplemental material: "Break, break break, on thy cold gray stones, O sea!" East side Whale Island. RWM Looking along E. Shore Whale Is. To Martin Point [Cape Martin] & ragged ridge snow capped mts. Alt. 1800-2000 ft. Taken in July.
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.
Title taken from verso. View of blue whale carcass laid out in front of large building at whaling station at Akutan, Alaska. Ca. 1930-1939. Original photograph size: 2.75" x 4.5".
View of men dismembering a blue whale at the whaling station in Akutan, Alaska. From verso: "Akutan whaling station." Original photograph size: 2.75" x 4.75".
View of bowhead whale bones placed around edges of cemetery at Point Hope, Alaska. 1960's? Photographer: Frank Whaley. Original photograph size: 8 1/8" x 10".
View of men butchering beluga whale while spectators gather, Kotzebue, Alaska, with buildings and whalebone mounted on rack in background. 1950's? Original photograph size: 8 1/8" x 10".
Title taken from verso. View of Beluga whale meat cut in strips drying on racks in summer, Kotzebue, Alaska, with tent in right background. 1960's? Photographer: Frank Whaley. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".
Title taken from information with photo. View of hunters butchering whale from umiak after successful whale hunt at Gambell on Saint Lawrence Island, Alaska. Also from information with photo: "Gambell, St. Lawrence Island, the whale hunt." April...
Title taken from front. Baleen (bone) from whale on ship, Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska. From verso: "780 pieces of whale bone. Whale 78 ft. long. Longest slab 9 1/2 ft. Value of bone $12,600. Cape Prince of Wales." Aug. 1902. Original photograph...
Group portrait, exterior. Chief of the Dakl'aweidi Clan (Killer Whale) lying in state with several important clan artifacts, such as the Killer Whale Dagger (on his chest) and Killer Whale Hat (left of deceased). Full resolution display...
Material: Wood Little Diomede Island; possibly used in connection with whale worship; triangular cavity at bottom which formerly had lid in which were probably kept whale harpoon and lance blades. Secured without lid or blades.
Material: Wood Little Diomede Island; possibly used in connection with whale worship; triangular cavity at bottom which formerly had lid in which were probably kept whale harpoon and lance blades. Secured without lid or blades.
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.
1 min, 15 sec film clip, color/sound. Marvin "Muktuk" Marston narrates an Eskimo hunting of a beluga whale. Location unknown. From video "People of the tundra".