Butchering the Big Whale's Head

This is the same 40-ton whale from the picture below from a closer vantage point. Notice how the large bones of jaw and head have been cut open. hose are my students in there with the knives.

The Whole Village Lends a Hand

Landing the big bowhead whales means using an excavator and a lot of people.

Butchering in Water

The crew member seen here is tasked with helping to butcher the whale in the water as they were not successful in landing it. Even a front-end loader was not enough to get Leviathon off

a submerged ice shelf

Bowhead Whale" Northwest Cape

Another image of a bowhead whale landed off the northwest cape, May, 2009

The big whale

This picture capture's Jeff Manhardt with on of our ninth-graders. Jeff taught at John Aapangalook Memorial School with me. This whale was brought in May 3, 2007 and weighed around 40 metric tons.