ANCHORAGE, ALASKA - Eskimo whale hunters are switching from 19th-century black powder to an explosive considered more humane. During a traditional bowhead whale hunt, a hunter in a wooden-ribbed boat ...
"Originally published in 1993 by Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd., London"--Title page verso. NMAI copy 39088019908631 from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. Contents The stories -- The whale -- ...
Introduction / Roger K. Harritt, Carol Zane Jolles, and Allen P. McCartney -- The archaeological imagination, zooarchaeological data, the origins of whaling in the western Arctic, and 'old whaling' ...