Ice Cellar - A Place of Respect, Storage for Meat (in Inupiat) piece 1
Ice Cellar - A Place of Respect, Storage for Meat (in Inupiat) piece 2
Ice Cellar - A Place of Respect, Storage for Meat

Whales give themselves to whalers who respect them and treat them properly. As part of this reverence, we offer the whale a clean place to come to. We store our whale meat and blubber in underground ice cellars that we clean out each year before whaling.

Pick Head

The pick head, made of walrus rib bone, is used to clear old ice and snow out of ice cellar.
Photo by Karen Brewster.
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