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The meat and especially the skin
of the bowhead whale have long been valued foods to the Inuit. Its oil was used
as lamp fuel. Tools were fashioned from the whale bone, and in former times, whale
bones were used for house supports.
Sculpture made of ivory
From Repulse Bay, Melville Peninsula
Dating to 1926
Gift of Major L.T. Burwash
HC 4519
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| Distribution
of the bowhead whale, Balaena
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