Two couples in front of unidentified wood frame house with white trim. The white trim, small boards, and style of windows makes this house look government built. Unidentified family stands outside by door of arctic entry. People wear fancy parkas...
Raising the building up onto skids. Showing Eskimos at work; building materials; oil drums. Woman in doorway (Mrs. Spriggs?) and woman and child in right corner of building; man with pipe, left hand corner.
Showing baleen. Whale is being partially butchered (some strips of maktak have been removed) while still in the water, so that it will be lighter and easier to pull up onto the ice. Whaling camp with canvas tent, skin boat (umiak), and hunting...
Hunters, umiaks, tents. Whale shares laid out and being loaded onto sleds for transport back to town. Dogs harnessed up and ready to go are visible in the background. Whale blubber was used for fuel and feeding dogs. The sleds were made from...
View of high tundra-covered bluff with frontal erosion. Photo taken in summer, despite woman's winter clothing and winter boots (white skins on sides, black in front). Drying racks of a sod house are visible in background. Location of bluffs is...
Young woman seated at left has white bandage wrapped around her head. Calendar visible on wall to the left, but year is not legible. Woman in back, wearing the striped parka, is Uumiñaq, and her daughter Lily is standing in front of her. Rest of...
Flagpole is on left end of the building. Summer view. Butter came in barrels like that at corner of building. Locals used them for making misigaaq (seal oil) and mikigaq (fermented whale meat and blubber).
Man exiting, ice windows, storage rack in background. Structures built by digging snow out of a hole and building the blocks up around it. Contact with walls would wet clothing. Ice visible in the background indicates location is near the ocean....
Man on the left uses a tool that resembles a metal garden hoe. The other men are using metal scraping tools, called "tuggaun" in Iñupiaq, which are the same tools used to butcher a whale. Scraping is made easier by freezing the skin.
Taking the boat and gear out onto the ice to set up whale camp. Men, Umiak and sled, sled dogs on ice. One dog team is pulling the boat on a sled, and the other is pulling a sled load of gear. Photo taken while stopping for a rest.
Messenger Feast (Kivgiq) Runner (Aqpatat) holding Messenger Sticks (Ayauppiaq). Runner would travel from host village to another village to invite them to the Kivgiq. The messenger sticks would have items attached to them to symbolize gifts the...
Four women dancing on blanket made of bearded sealskin outside during Nalukataq (spring whaling celebration). Well-dressed women dance with babies on their backs. The metal bucket near drummers is filled with water used to keep drums moist for...
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.