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B1990.014.004.07356
07356 Eskimo readies whale harpoon
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B1990.014.004.07354
07354 This Harpoon, with poke (Float) affixed will be set in wounded whale: Eskimo
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990.014.4
B2001.038.6
The boat which first harpooned the whale leads the procession to the ice when it is towed in for cutting.
Collection: B2001.038
B2017.011.147
Alaska ’47 – Bethel, Nunivak Eskimo demonstrating harpoon technique to Ray Petersen [Yupik man wearing driving cap hurling harpoon, Ray Petersen standing at right]
Collection: B2017.011
B2017.024.2120
King Island, copyright 1986 [two men drag a sea lion on ice; water; possibly harpoon in snow]
Collection: B2017.024
B1996.009.16full
Crew wounded it in Bering Straits between the Diomedes and after making fast to it with the harpoon and bomb gun, was surprised when they cut it up to find -
Collection: B1996.009 McBride Collection
B2014.016.1908
Little Diomede [man wearing white rabbit fur parka posed with rifle, seal float, harpoon, and oomiak on beach, probably Nome]
Keywords: hunting, ethnotechnology, clothing
Collection: B2014.016
B2014.016.1906
Little Diomede [man wearing white rabbit fur parka posed with rifle, two seal floats, harpoon, and oomiak on beach, probably Nome]
Keywords: hunting, clothing, ethnotechnology, boats
Collection: B2014.016
B1989.016.2127.4
48. Esquimo seal hunter. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska [man in bow of boat holding harpoon, wearing fur parka and smoking pipe. copy neg]
Keywords: hunting
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2017.024.1041
Oct70P5 #15722 Barrow "Ice fishing Eskimo woman" [Inupiaq woman wearing parka with fur trim, leather gloves sits fishing through ice, possibly harpoon at right]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Inupiat, Barrow, Utqiagvik, Ice fishing, Harpoon
Collection: B2017.024
B2017.024.1041a
Oct70P5 #15722 Barrow "Ice fishing Eskimo woman" [Inupiaq woman wearing parka with fur trim, leather gloves sits fishing through ice, possibly harpoon at right]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Inupiat, Barrow, Utqiagvik, Ice fishing, Harpoon
Collection: B2017.024
B1989.016.2088
45. Eskimo lancing a bowhead whale. c. Thomas. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska [hunter in parka and mukluks thrusting harpoon into whale in water next to ice floe, 1930s?]
Keywords: hunting
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2013.076.2
[Inupiaq man wearing fur parka, mukluks, and snowshoes carrying harpoon and pulling seal carcass, standing with Inupiaq woman wearing fabirc parka and mukluks on tundra, Teller, circa 1952]
Collection: B2013.076
B1996.009.02full
His meat hook and new walrus hide rope is made ready. His harpoon points polished and sharpened. The new paddles are made in the kozga or dance house where he spends a week preceding the opening of whaling season.
Collection: B1996.009 McBride Collection
B1996.009.04full
Seal skins filled with air are used as rollers under the boat as it is taken over the rough ice hummocks to the open waters of Bering Straits. They are then made fast to the thong attached to harpoon point and used as buoys to the dead whale.
Collection: B1996.009 McBride Collection
B2018.023.027a
Asahel Curtis, Commercial Photographer; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [caption from verso: "Walrus killed on ice floes off Siberian coast, Bering Sea by G. Madsen. June, 1909" hunting scene; harpoon; parkas; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.027b
Asahel Curtis, Commercial Photographer; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [verso of slide: caption from verso: "Walrus killed on ice floes off Siberian coast, Bering Sea by G. Madsen. June, 1909" hunting scene; harpoon; parkas; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1998.014.1.566
"E9 Hooper Bay Eskimo[s] at Fairbanks Winter Carnival, 1938, Carnival time" [men and women wearing fur parkas, possibly one bird parka, mukluks, mittens pose in front of snow, ice, trestle in background. drum, bow, arrows, harpoons (?)]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.447
C2 Guard of Honor for Carnival Queen's Ice throne [Faribanks, flags, military uniforms, rifle, fur parkas, snow stairs, women wearing sashes, Matanuska Maid, Dawson?, University?, Miss Alaska, Man in Native dress carrying spear, harpoon, hat, snowshoes]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
