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B1966.010.30
(Beluga being handled at old alaska commercial building Beluga River 1919)
Collection: B1966.010 CIHS Anderson
B2017.024.2330
Kotzebue, June 1967 "beluga whale butchering" [women process beluga meat at table on beach; ulus; shore ice; water]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.2332
Kotzebue, June 1967 "beluga whale butchering" [women process beluga meat at table and on plywood on beach; ulu; man and child; boat in background; shore ice; water]
Collection: B2017.024
B1989.016.325
60. Beluga Whale, Cooks Inlet, Alaska. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage.
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2017.024.2323
Kotzebue, June 1967 [butchering beluga whale; shore ice; water. At AFN 2022, woman at center flensing beluga with an ulu identified as Mamie Reich and the woman to the right in headscarf identified as Norma Reich]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Indigenous, Ice, Beluga, Whale, Processing
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.2317
Kotzebue, June 1967 "beluga whale butchering" [people butcher whale on ice; water in background]
Collection: B2017.024
B1966.010.02
3 men at Alaska Commercial Bldgs on Beluga River, 1919. 3.25 x 4.25 nitrate negative
Collection: B1966.010 CIHS Anderson
B1995.010.4848
[woman cleaning beluga whale on beach, sled frame at right, Kotzebue; print date Feb 70]
Collection: B1995.010
B2006.023.6406.jpg
Tim Redington with beluga whale (shot be Joee at mouth of Susitna River) 1960. Flat Horn Lake.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 6000-6999
B2006.023.6406
Tim Redington with beluga whale (shot be Joee at mouth of Susitna River) 1960. Flat Horn Lake.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B2017.024.2316
Kotzebue, June 1967 [woman and children watch as beluga whale is butchered on shore ice; open water]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.2344
Kotzebue, June 1967 [man with gun and boy look at belugas on gravel beach; shore ice; water]
Collection: B2017.024
B1966.010.33.neg
L.D. Ellexson and A.W. Anderson with baby beluga. Theodore River 1919. 3.25 x 4.25 nitrate negative
Collection: B1966.010 CIHS Anderson
B1966.010.37.neg
Theodore River 1919. L.D. Ellexson, A.W. Anderson, Red Jack (Benton) Bartels. Beluga hunting. 3.25 x 4.25 nitrate negative
Collection: B1966.010 CIHS Anderson
B1995.010.4845
[people gathered to watch two women cleaning beluga whale on beach, sled frame in center background, Kotzebue; print date Feb 70]
Collection: B1995.010
B2017.024.3416
Black Start 12-70 4321 Alaska Eskimo [Kotzebue, three people butchering beluga whales on jumble ice; boat and water in background]
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.3416
Black Start 12-70 4321 Alaska Eskimo [Kotzebue, three people butchering beluga whales on jumble ice; boat and water in background]
Collection: B2017.024
B1985.027.2446
[from verso:] Eskimos - hunting; James Leveque, Wien Alaska Airlines [man, woman, and child removing blubber from beluga whale; woman using ulu, beach]
Collection: B1985.027 Wien Collection
B1970.019.729
6 am 9/6/26. Back from duck hunt at Beluga River & Lewis Slough. Left to right: Harold Osborne, Johnny Weis, E.R. Tarwater, Geo. Neil, Dr. A.S. Haverstock, J.J.D., Archie Lewis, R.D. Thompson, Ray Matheson, Neil Wanamaker, Lyle Larsen, Nick Gaikema, ?
Keywords: hunting
Collection: B1970.019 J_J_ Delaney Collection