Accession Number: |
TT.00928 |
Date of Photo: |
1979 |
Caption: |
A bowhead is slaughtered and divided. A large bowhead may provide many tons of meat, which is shared traditionally with the entire community.
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Description: |
A bowhead whale is being butchered by whalers, men and women alike out on the ice near an open lead. Man on top is using a tuggautaq {large flensing knife} to cut the maktak {skin and blubber} while men on the side pull using niksigaurat {meat hook}.
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Name: |
Unknown Photographer |
Ethnicity: |
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Role: |
Photographer
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State: |
Alaska
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Region: |
Arctic Slope
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Community: |
Barrow
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Indigenous Group: |
Inupiat |
Publication Information: |
1979/06 pg. 1 |
CD Number: |
125
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Annotations: |
12
TT June Special 1979
Whaling
5 col. x 6 1/4"
Pg. 1
43.6 X 35
100%
A bowhead whale is slaughtered and divided. A large bowhead may provide many tons of meat, which is shared traditionally with the entire community.
photo courtesy of the Tundra Times |
Keywords: |
Equipment:Knives:Tuggautat Equipment:Niksigat Indigenous Groups:Inupiat Subsistence:Hunting:Whaling |