Dr. Asta Mønsted
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And that is definitely not for walrus.
That is for whale, for that bow-ahead whale.
So the people that live there might have hunted that whale, which remains, we saw right there.
We of course have the tools that you mentioned, but we also know from historic times that, and also from Canada, that you would go hunting for whales in sort of crews.
So you had an Inuit whaling crew, right?
An umialik means someone who owns this boat.
this large boat, because you need that when you go hunting for a whale.
And then they would sail out in those umiaks and they will search for a whale.
And one person will have the amazing job of being either the bravest of the bravest or the dumbest of the dumb.
Because he would need to wear this suit made from...
and I probably need to check up on this, but made from skins, seal skins.
I'm just wondering if it was actually a walrus skin, but some skins you have removed the hair and then it's sewn together to be sort of like a wetsuit.
And then you would do the amazing thing to be jumping from that boat of safety onto that whale.
You have your friends throwing some harpoons into it with bladders that will keep it from diving.
And then you need to find the breathing hole on that whale.
And then you need to put your lance into it and kill it.