Edited film shot by William Van Valin as leader of the John Wanamaker Expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska for the University of Pennsylvania Museum. The film, that later toured in a film-lecture series ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Inuit hunter John Goodwin for decades has hunted oogruk, the bearded seal, a marine mammal prized for its meat, oil and hide. The largest of Alaska’s ice seals uses sea ...

Alaska’s vast wilderness has long been a haven for hunters seeking adventure and the chance to pursue big game in one of the most rugged landscapes in the world. For the 2025-2026 hunting season, the ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Research on one of the oldest-living mammals - the bowhead whale - has helped preserve a primary food source for Eskimos in the far reaches of Alaska, and also may provide a ...

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' ...