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Buster Kailek is storytelling about how Inuvialuit lived prior to European contact, about how they made fire long ago, about fishing, about caribou hunting methods prior to modern guns with his uncle and others, about all the many uses of caribou for…

Buster Kailek is storytelling about their travels including traveling to Tuktoyaktuk getting supplies at the Hudson Bay, and the many schooners that were there, of their traveling challenges, of a child’s death, of hunting and trapping, of their…

A photo of Maureen Hunt and Jimmy with a seal on the frozen ocean.

A photo of sled dogs resting at a seal hunt camp. Six people and a tent are in the background. One person is carrying a crate.

A photo of a seal skin ornament picture frame.

The image shows Peter Esau posing with a seal ugyuk he got from hunting.

S/Cst. Peter Esau skinning seal ugyuk.

The image shows Peter Esau and another man in rubber boat going hunting for seals at an open crack about 10 miles out.

The image shows Robert Kuptana and Peter Esau skinning seals on the shore.

A photo of Tivuana (Fred Carpenter's mother), Susie Wolki, and Roy Wolki butchering a bearded seal.

A photo of Fred Carpenter and Peter Esau with a bearded seal they caught about seven miles south of Sachs Harbour.

A photo of Fred Carpenter and Peter Esau standing by a bearded seal that they caught. Photo by Peter Sydney.

A photo of Father Tardy holding a pickaxe beside several seals in Ulukhaktok.

The photo shows a dead seal liad out on a plastic sheet, most likely for a seal skinning contest. We can also see a lady bending over preparing to do something to the seal with an audience around her.

The photo shows a woman skinning a seal with a man next to her with a camera, as well as a crowd of people watching her.

The photo shows a seal skinning competition in Inuvik.

The photo shows a woman working on skinning a seal in Inuvik, with a crowd watching her.

The photo shows a woman in Jim Koe Park skinning a seal in front of on lookers.