
PEO001-00128
A dead bowhead whale lies on the beach in Kaktovik. The village is allowed by law to take three whales each fall for the meat and baleen. First the whale is washed with a front-end loader, then butchering begins.
Keywords
- Aerial
- Alaska
- Bowhead
- Butcher
- Butchering
- Dead
- Hunting
- Kaktovik
- Native
- Native American
- North
- North slope
- Slope
- Traditional
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