Caption: Just back of the village, on the side of Cape Mountain there are hundreds of pre-historic pits made of hewn granite stones. These pits are six feet long four wide and four deep. The stone facing the sea...
Photograph of a school teacher in a U. S. Government School at Cape Prince of Wales. Visible are several Native students at their desks, a blackboard with math problems and the date May 6th, 1902, an American flag and presidential portraits are on...
A whale boat captain is seated on a snow bank, behind him is a pole with items hanging from it like chains, a pot, and next to him is another pot and a mitten. The captain is wearing a rain parka made of gut and rain boots, he has a labret in in...
Caption: For twenty-four hours previous to launching the first whale boat, all members of the whaling crews fast, dance and sing of former deeds of bravery at sea.
Woman with a fire nearby boiling a liquid in a pot.
Caption: An old woman burns the shavings from the new paddles. She throws the ashes over the path of the whale boat as it is taken to open water. This is to scare away evil spirits....
Caption: 70 foot whale killed by the crew of the Whaler Alexander on the international boundary between the Russian and American Diomede Islands in Bering Strait.
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...
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...