The Bowhead vs. the Gray Whale in Chukotkan Aboriginal Whaling

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Krupnik, Igor I.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1987
• Subjects: Animal distribution; Animal mortality; Archaeology; Bowhead whales; Chukchis; Gray whales; History; Hunting; Native peoples; Subsistence; Whaling; Bering Sea; Chukchi Sea; Chukotskiy Poluostrov; Russian Federation; Vostochno-Sibirskoye More; Baleine; la Baleine; Arctic; Balaena mysticetus; baleen whales; baleine boréale; Chukchi; chukchis; Chukotka; Chukotka Peninsula; eskimo*; inuit; Alaska
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64797

Active whaling for large baleen whales - mostly for bowhead (Balaena mysticetus) and gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) - has been practiced by aborigines on the Chukotka Peninsula since at least the early centuries of the Christian era. The history of native whaling off Chukotka may be divided int...