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".
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...
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.
A movie camera on a tripod is set up on the ice in the foreground, while a whaling crew looks into the water at a whale carcass prior to hauling it out and butchering it. A small wooden whaling boat is visible in the water. Photograph taken during...
A. W. Anderson and Lee Wise with boat they used to trap and kill beluga whales, Three-Mile Creek, Cook Inlet area, Alaska. From verso: "A boat was used by Anderson & Wise to trap belugas at Three-Mile Creek in 1919. The belugas would chase the...
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".
Cache of baleen, man (trader?) standing. Probably autumn, because the water is shallow, and there is no ice. In the spring, the whale would be pulled up by its tail, and in the fall it would be pulled up by its head.
Caption: "Home coming of a successful whaling season's crew. Each boat that catches a whale, when coming ashore, puts up his own flag to show that he has caught one or more whales for the season. This is my [David Brower's] canoe and crew coming...