Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 1 minute and 1 second, MPG-1 format. Kunnaan makes a special delicacy from the seal blubber and seal intestine. She gets a slab of blubber ready and rinses...
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows walrus meat and blubber spread out on a beach. Some people are standing nearby with a boat. Caption from finding aid reads "Walrus meat on beach on St. Lawrence Island". Location is St. Lawrence...
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows men in a boat and a woman standing on a beach. Two men are unloading large chunks of either walrus or whale blubber and skin. Caption from finding aid reads "St. Lawrence Island". Location is St....
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows three men butchering a dead walrus. They are on an iceberg with an umiak parked next to them. Caption from finding aid reads "St. Lawrence Island walrus catch". Location is St. Lawrence Island,...
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows a few men butchering a walrus on an iceberg. Caption from finding aid reads "Close view of skinning walrus". Location may be St. Lawrence Island, Alaska.
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows a couple of people butching walruses on a beach. Icebergs can be seen in the background. Caption from finding aid reads "St. Lawrence Island". Location is St. Lawrence Island, Alaska.
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows some men and children standing next to a skin-covered boat. Pieces of walruses are spread out on the beach. Caption from finding aid reads "Skin boat, walrus pieces and hunters, St. Lawrence Island...
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows a woman and a child holding the line of a boat as they sit on the beach next to a large pile of walrus meat. Caption from finding aid reads "St. Lawrence Island people holding line to hold boat". ...
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows an Alaska Native man crouching on a beach next to a butchered walrus. Icebergs sit behind him. Caption from finding aid reads "St. Lawrence Island walruses". Location is Saint Lawrence Island, Alaska.
Title taken from verso. Close up photograph of two older Inupiat women eating muktuk. The woman on the left is in a fur trimmed parka. Verso: "Muktuk Eating Contest (Seal or whale blubber after a sort of pickling process - the pink is the blubber -...
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...
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 2 minutes and 18 seconds, MPG-1 format. The crew butchers the seal. Paul Bodfish makes an incision through the center from the belly on up from below the...
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 1 minute and 4 seconds, MPG-1 format. The camp ladies begin to separate the blubber from the skin, all the while being sure that the ulus are kept sharp....
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows a walrus that has been skinned. Blood, guts and blubber is spread out over the ice. Three men can be seen as well as a boat. Caption from finding aid reads "Walrus skinned". Location is unknown.
Title from verso. Photograph of sealskin harvest barreled for transport on the USS Thuban, seen in the background. Verso reads: "Seven of 16. Precious Cargo -- In neatly spaced barrels, part of a four million dollar sealskin harvest...
Title from indexer. Photograph of Mary Cox, sitting on the snow, cutting fat and meat from what looks like a chunk of whale. A cache is in the background.
Title by cataloguer. The Fur Seals are warm blooded. Their thick fur coats keep them warm in the Arctic. Once a year, the Fur Seals shed their fur as well as a layer of blubber under the skin. The Seals also have long sensitive whiskers that...