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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.

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}.


Name: Unknown Photographer
Ethnicity:
Role: Photographer

State: Alaska
Region: Arctic Slope
Community: Barrow

Indigenous Group: Inupiat
Publication Information: 1979/06 pg. 1
CD Number: 125

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



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