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Story of a whale hunt in Bering Straits. S.R. Bernardi, photographer. Nome, Alaska
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At the base of Camp Prince of Wales, Alaska, the most westerly point on the American continent, there is an Eskimo village where the makes chase the bowhead whales through Bering Straits during May each year.
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The whale hunting season is opened formally by the captain of the boat, taking from a box on the cache his charms and hunting paraphanalia.
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He suspends them over his meat cellar. He puts labret in his mouth, acting host to the whole village who calls to be served with a piece of whale meat last caught by him.
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The crew feast and dance then sweat and fast in their kozga or underground dance house, making paddles for their canoes for whaling - the women bringing their food.
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The hole in the floor the only entrance. Even the boys dance to the accompaniment of drums and songs telling of great feats of daring and endurance by their forefathers.
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The old walrus hide is removed from the canoe, a new one put on, the crew bid.
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... their families goodbye (il-lan-e-mook')
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The canoe is put on rollers of seal skins filled with air and taken to the open waters of Bering Straits, the path being made safe from evil influences by an old woman.
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...who makes a fire of the shavings, saved from the making of the canoe paddles, using the ashes to sprinkle over the path and also to throw into the sea to pacify the spirits of wind and waves.
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Arriving at the edge of the open water the boat is cached.
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The skull of some animal suspended over it while the men dance around it, the captain marking the tribal mark on each forehead with a piece of native graphite, marking also a
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a line of graphite around the skin boat as a protection against evil spirits-After patrolling Bering Straits with several other crews and seeing no whales they camp on the shore ice sleep and perhaps dream of a 70 foot whale caught by the crew of the Alexander between the Diomede Islands
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... a line of graphite around the skin boat as a protection against evil spirits. After patrolling Bering Straits with several other crews and seeing no whales they camp on the shote ice, sleep and
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perhaps dream of a 70 foot whale caught by the crew of the Alexander between the Diomede Islands
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and whose head contained 780 pieces of whalebone, the longest slab being 12 feet long, the bone being worth $12,000, but the poor Eskimo is glad to catch even a
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30 foot pup whale and sends a runner through the village to carry the news, and the natives
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herders leave their fawns to sleep and grow
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The captain puts on his pendant made of pieces of whale meat sewed in pieces of seal skin, the whole village hurries to the
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open water to help haul in the whale. The performance being made safe by two charm birds wrapped in Seal Fat & suspended over the carcass of the whale
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open water to help hual in the whale, the performance being made safe by the charm birds wrapped in seal fat & suspended over the carcass of the whale
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The crew put on waterproof suits of seal skin, sharpen their knives, tie their whet
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stones around their necks. One cuts a hole in the whales stomach, gets in and cuts away enough blubber and meat so others may get in to help carve and throw the meat to the women
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The most valuable part of the whale is the head. The commercial bone is fitted in the upper jaw as out upper teeth
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The inside of the bone is covered with a coarse fibre used to strain the food usually only the tiniest jelly fish. The spouting of the whale is only moisture from the lungs.
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The inside of the bone is covered with a coarse fibre used to strain the food usually only the tiniest jelly fish. The spouting of the whale is only moisture from the lungs &
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not water as is generally supposed. The bow shaped bone in the centre of the photo is the bone from which the whale derives its name
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After a good whale season every one is happy
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Story of a whale hunt in Bering Straits. S.R. Bernardi, photographer. Nome, Alaska
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