Title taken from caption. View of two women hanging beluga whale meat out to dry after a successful whale hunt. The photograph was taken on the beach at Kotzebue, Alaska. Behind the woman to the left is a man taking a photograph. In the background...
Title taken from verso. View of people outside entrance to Wien Arctic Hotel operated by Wien Alaska Airlines in Kotzebue, Alaska, with whalebone mounted on stands at right and small boat lying upside down in foreground. 1950's? Original photograph...
Title partially taken from sign on building. View of entrance to Wien Alaska Hotel operated by Wien Alaska Airlines in Kotzebue, Alaska, with whalebone mounted on stands in foreground. 1950's? Photographer: Frank Whaley. Original photograph size:...
Title taken from verso. Poster for Wien Alaska Airlines showing fourteen different pictures of activities in Alaska. Poster reads: "Eskimoland. North of the Circle. Land of the double days. Here you will find a different world in a hundred...
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...
A movie camera on a tripod is set up on the ice in the foreground, while a whaling crew looks into the water at a whale carcass prior to hauling it out and butchering it. A small wooden whaling boat is visible in the water. Photograph taken during...
Photograph shows men wearing kuspuks with fur around the hoods, mukluks, and other winter garb pulling a whale up out of the water and over the snow and ice. There is a low boat on the shore to the right of the...
Title taken from the back of photograph. "The largest whale skull on the Island - half buried in the beach". Additional information with photo. Group is identified: Bill Field, Dorothea Leighton and Alex Leighton. Property of Dorothea...
Title taken from front. Baleen (bone) from whale on ship, Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska. From verso: "780 pieces of whale bone. Whale 78 ft. long. Longest slab 9 1/2 ft. Value of bone $12,600. Cape Prince of Wales." Aug. 1902. Original photograph...
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...