Kingikmiut Eskimo hunter bringing back a hair seal carcass, Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, between 1901 and 1906
Handwritten in album: A hair seal, plentiful all the year in Bering Straits. As many as 75 are caught in 1 day. The small boy's and men's hunting trousers are made of the skin with hair on. Without the hair waterproof boots and suits are made. The hunter carrys snow shoes, a gun, a walking...
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| Summary: | Handwritten in album: A hair seal, plentiful all the year in Bering Straits. As many as 75 are caught in 1 day. The small boy's and men's hunting trousers are made of the skin with hair on. Without the hair waterproof boots and suits are made. The hunter carrys snow shoes, a gun, a walking stick and claws of a seal which he uses to imitate the scratching of a seal as a decoy to draw other seals in. PH Coll 49.17 |
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