WHALE HUNTING
- Hunting in an umiak
- Sassat – beluga whale and narwhal hunting on the sea ice
- The uses of whales
You solve the tasks by using
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- Drawing tools
This part is based on pp. 34-45 – there you will find information about the subject.
Read about whales and climate changes here.
To Inuit whale hunting was very important as it could ensure the survival of the settlement for a whole season.
In the picture you see whale hunting from an umiak. It was built to navigate the Icefjord filled with ice floes.
What is an umiak, and what was it normally used for?
When was the umiak replaced by modern types of boat?
On page 36 is a picture of a “springpels” – and that is?
When the fjord freezes over fast the whales may not be in time to reach open sea. They then gather in holes in the ice that they keep open to breathe.
This makes them easy to catch, and there can be hundreds of whales at one place when this happens.
What does “sassat” mean, and why did the phenomenon get just that name?
Why is it seldom that sassat occurs today?
Which hunting tool is used when the whales are gathered in the hole in the ice?
When a whale was caught it was fully used. Meat, bones, baleens and train oil – everything could be used.
Whale hunting goes back 4,500 years, and whales always were an important game animal.
For food as well as material for hunting tools and building constructions.
What do you see in this picture (p. 44 in the book)?
What did the European whalers use the whales for?
On pages 42-43 is a picture of a whale that has been caught. What kind of whale is it?
To Inuit whale hunting was very important as it could ensure the survival of the settlement for a whole season.
In the picture you see whale hunting from an umiak. It was built to navigate the Icefjord filled with ice floes.
What is an umiak, and what was it normally used for?
When was the umiak replaced by modern types of boat?
On page 36 is a picture of a “springpels” – and that is?
When the fjord freezes over fast the whales may not be in time to reach open sea. They then gather in holes in the ice that they keep open to breathe.
This makes them easy to catch, and there can be hundreds of whales at one place when this happens.
What does “sassat” mean, and why did the phenomenon get just that name?
Why is it seldom that sassat occurs today?
Which hunting tool is used when the whales are gathered in the hole in the ice?
When a whale was caught it was fully used. Meat, bones, baleens and train oil – everything could be used.
Whale hunting goes back 4,500 years, and whales always were an important game animal.
For food as well as material for hunting tools and building constructions.
What do you see in this picture (p. 44 in the book)?
What did the European whalers use the whales for?
On pages 42-43 is a picture of a whale that has been caught. What kind of whale is it?
