Whale Butchering Eskimo Village Barrow Alaska

Men from the Eskimo village of Barrow, Alaska, spend their days on the icy shores butchering a Bowhead whale.

Most people find that butchering a whale is an unnecessary act of violence, but the Eskimo community in the village of Barrow, Alaska look at it as a way of life. The people in the village of Barrow, spend days butchering a whale as each section of blubber is split from the skeleton and then cut into small pieces.

Alaska. Barrow. Traditional eskimo native culture. Subsistence whale hunting. The butchering process of a bowhead whale is a community wide process in the native village.

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Photo Title: Whale Butchering Eskimo Village Barrow Alaska

Men from the Eskimo village of Barrow, Alaska, spend their days on the icy shores butchering a Bowhead whale.