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".
Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Shows western end of the Alaska Peninsula, with Unga, Unimak & Akutan Islands as well as Kuskokwim Bay and the Pribilofs. Shows tracks of Billings and Sarychev. Map no. 21 from v. 4 of "Atlas...
Descriptive Narrative: Board with ivory peg, two finger holds, painted red on grooved side and black on the other.
Description: wood; ivory; painted; red; black
Inscription: Aleutian hand stick for throwing spear Akutan Island (writing)...
View of men cutting up whale at whaling station, Akutan, Alaska. From verso: "Whale. Akutan, Alaska. Whaling station in Aleutian Islands." n.d. Postcard. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 5 1/2".
Title taken from verso. Men at whaling station cutting up sperm whale, Akutan, Alaska. From information with photo: "A modern whaling station in the Aleutians. Now taken over yb [sic] the Army. This was a Norwegian whaling station. (not active). #4...