Group portrait, exterior. Chief of the Dakl'aweidi Clan (Killer Whale) lying in state with several important clan artifacts, such as the Killer Whale Dagger (on his chest) and Killer Whale Hat (left of deceased). Full resolution display...
Material: Wood Little Diomede Island; possibly used in connection with whale worship; triangular cavity at bottom which formerly had lid in which were probably kept whale harpoon and lance blades. Secured without lid or blades.
Material: Wood Little Diomede Island; possibly used in connection with whale worship; triangular cavity at bottom which formerly had lid in which were probably kept whale harpoon and lance blades. Secured without lid or blades.
Photograph shows a Native Alaskan man wearing seal fur pants and a fur ruffed hood lying in a dead whales mouth. The whale looks to be partially pulled up onto the ice but mostly in the water.
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...
Title taken from caption. View of a dog beneath racks of drying beluga whale meat. Photograph taken after a successful whaling hunt (see photographs UAA-hmc-0620-series1-f2-92, 93, 95). Photograph taken July 5, 1952. Photograph type: 35 mm color...
Title taken from caption. View of a beluga whale tied to a boat after a successful whaling hunt near Kotzebue, Alaska. Photograph taken July 5, 1952. Photograph type: 35 mm color slide.
Title taken from caption. View of the beach in front of the village of Kotzebue, Alaska. Based on other photographs in the series the meat drying on the racks is from a successful beluga whale hunt. Photograph taken July 5, 1952. Photograph type:...
Title taken from caption. View of a woman holding muktuk made from beluga whale meat in the village of Kotzebue, Alaska. Photograph taken July 4, 1952. Photograph type: 35 mm color slide.
Title taken from caption. View of a man butchering a beluga whale after a successful whaling hunt near Kotzebue, Alaska, with people partially visible in the foreground. Photograph taken July 5, 1952. Photograph type: 35 mm color slide.
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 -...
Title and spelling taken from caption. View of Alan May sitting near a whale vertebrae, and eating a sandwich. There are shovels propped up next to him. From May's journal, dated July 11th: "Turned out the grandaddy [sic] of all whale vertabrae...
Title taken from verso. View of man carrying dead baby beluga whale, Theodore River (sometimes known as Theodore Creek), Cook Inlet area, Alaska. 1919. Original photograph size: 4 1/2" x 3 1/2".
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".