Steven Kazlowski / An Inupiaq whaling crew prepare to paddle their seal skin boat / umiak, in an open lead in the Chukchi Sea, during spring whaling season, off the Arctic coastal village of Point Hope, Alaska, May 2008
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Steven Kazlowski / An Inupiaq whaling crew paddle their seal skin boat / umiak, in an open lead in the Chukchi Sea, during spring whaling season, off the Arctic coastal village of Point Hope, Alaska, May 2008
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Pete Oxford / Southern Elephant Seal moulting, East Falkland Islands (Mirounga leonina)
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Mark Carwardine / Southern elephant seal moulting {Mirounga leonina} Falkland Is
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Steven Kazlowski / Inupiaq subsistence whalers paddle their umiak, or bearded seal skin boat, to find passing bowhead whales traveling through the open lead, during spring whaling season. Chukchi Sea, offshore from Barr...
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Steven Kazlowski / Inupiaq subsistence whalers bring their umiak - bearded seal skin boat - back onto the edge of an open lead in the pack ice, during spring whaling season. Chukchi Sea, offshore from Barrow, Arctic coa...
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Steven Kazlowski / Inupiaq subsistence whalers in their umiak - bearded seal skin boat - watch a polar bear (Ursus maritimus) sow and cub travel along the edge of the open lead in the pack ice, during spring whaling sea...
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Steven Kazlowski / Inupiaq subsistence whalers paddle their umiak - or bearded seal skin boat - and break thin ice forming in the open lead, allowing for passing bowhead whales during spring whaling season. Chukchi Sea,...
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Steven Kazlowski / Inupiaq subsistence whalers get into their umiak - or bearded seal skin boat - in order to break thin ice forming in the open lead, allowing for passing bowhead whales during spring whaling season. Ch...
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Steven Kazlowski / Inupiaq subsistence whaler at the front of an umiak - or bearded seal skin boat - spots a whale from the edge of an open lead in the pack ice during spring whaling season. Chukchi Sea, offshore from B...
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Steven Kazlowski / Inupiaq subsistence whalers with an umiak - a bearded seal skin boat - wait at the edge of an open lead in the pack ice and look for whales. Chukchi Sea, offshore from Barrow, Arctic coast of Alaska,...
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Konrad Wothe / Antarctic Fur Seal (Arctocephalus gazella) molting, South Georgia Island
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Kathryn Jeffs / Flipper detail of Southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) Antarctica, February, Taken on location for BBC Frozen Planet series
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Steven Kazlowski / Young Inupiaq woman processes a Bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus) caught by subsistence hunters in the Chukchi Sea, in the arctic village of Point Lay, Alaska. The meat and blubber will be eaten and...
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Steven Kazlowski / Young Inupiaq woman processes a Bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus) caught by subsistence hunters in the Chukchi Sea, in the arctic village of Point Lay, Alaska. The meat and blubber will be eaten and...
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Kathryn Jeffs / Scientist exanming skin of dead Weddell seal (Leptonychotes weddellii) Antarctica. Taken on location for BBC Frozen Planet series, Winter
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Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Polar bear and seal skins drying outside an Inuit home on Qikiqtarjuaq (Broughton Island), Nunavut, Canada, 2002.
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Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Seal skins drying outside an Inuit home on Qikiqtarjuaq (Broughton Island), Nunavut, Canada, 2002.
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Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Table of traditional North Greenlandic foods: Greenland Halibut, Mattaq (Narwhal skin), eider duck eggs, dried narwhal meat, Arctic char, boiled seal meat & dried polar cod, Thule, Northwest Greenlan...
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Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Shopkeeper with seal skins at store in Savissivik, Northwest Greenland, 1991.
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Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Inuit woman in hunting hut using ulu (womens knife) to clean seal skin. Northwest Greenland, 1980.
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Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Inuit woman in hunting hut cleaning seal skin. Northwest Greenland, 1980.
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Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Inuit woman sewing wet seal skins onto wooden kayak frame. Qeqertat, Thule, Northwest Greenland, 1977.
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Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Inuit women sewing wet seal skins onto kayak frame. Qeqertat, Northwest Greenland, 1977.
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Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Inuit hunter skinning Ringed seal (Phoca hispida) out on sea ice. Northwest Greenland.
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Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Seal skins hanging on line to dry in Autumn. Moriussaq, Greenland, 1987.
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Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Inuit woman stretching seal skin onto frame to dry. Northwest Greenland, 1980.
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Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Inuit hunter skinning Ringed seal (Phoca hispida). Northwest Greenland, 1980.
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Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Inuit hunter using knife to skin Ringed seal (Phoca hispida). Northwest Greenland, 1980.
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Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Inuit storekeeper trading fox and seal skins. Northwest Greenland, 1980.
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Bryan and Cherry Alexander / White and blue fox skins, and seal skins, for sale. Northwest Greenland, 1980.
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Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Inuit woman hanging up cleaned seal skin at hunting camp. Northwest Greenland, 1980.
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Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Ajagak, a game made from two pieces of seal bone and skin thong. Qaanaaq, Greenland.
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Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Inuit women using an Ulu (traditional Inuit woman's knife) to scrape fat from seal skins. Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada, 1992.
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Neil Lucas / Seal fur sleeping bag in interior of Shackleton's Nimrod Hut, frozen in time from the British Antarctic Expedition 1907, Cape Royds, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, November 2008
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Sue Flood / Hunter from Greenland in traditional animal skin clothing, including polar bear trousers, creeping up on a sleeping seal, using a traditional hunting technique, near Resolute, Nunavut, Canadian high A...
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Steven Kazlowski / An Inupiaq whaling crew paddle their seal skin boat / umiak, in an open lead in the Chukchi Sea, during spring whaling season, off the Arctic coastal village of Point Hope, Alaska, May 2008
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Steven Kazlowski / An Inupiaq seal skin boat / umiak at the edge of an open lead in the pack ice during spring whaling season, off the Arctic coastal village of Point Hope, Chukchi Sea, Alaska, May 2008
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Steven Kazlowski / An Inupiaq whaling crew paddle their seal skin boat / umiak, in an open lead in the Chukchi Sea, during spring whaling season, off the Arctic coastal village of Point Hope, Alaska, May 2008
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Steven Kazlowski / An Inupiaq seal skin boat / umiak, used for whaling on the pack ice during spring whaling season, off the Arctic coastal village of Point Hope, Chukchi Sea, Alaska, May 2008
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Steven Kazlowski / An Inupiaq seal skin boat / umiak at the edge of an open lead in the pack ice during spring whaling season, off the Arctic coastal village of Point Hope, Chukchi Sea, Alaska, May 2008
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Steven Kazlowski / An Inupiaq whaling crew prepare to paddle their seal skin boat / umiak, in an open lead in the Chukchi Sea, during spring whaling season, off the Arctic coastal village of Point Hope, Alaska, May 2008
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Steven Kazlowski / An Inupiaq whaling crew paddle their seal skin boat / umiak, in an open lead in the Chukchi Sea, during spring whaling season, off the Arctic coastal village of Point Hope, Alaska, May 2008
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Steven Kazlowski / An Inupiaq whaling crew paddle their seal skin boat / umiak, in an open lead in the Chukchi Sea, during spring whaling season, off the Arctic coastal village of Point Hope, Alaska, May 2008
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Bernard Castelein / Wounded grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) (probably by a propeller), Helgoland, Germany
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Kerstin Hinze / Group Southern Elephant Seals (Mirounga leonina) resting and moulting, Carcass Island, Falkland Islands, South Atlantic Ocean
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TJ Rich / Leopard seal (Hydruga leptonyx) close up of fur and flippers, Antarctica
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DOC WHITE / Inuit hunter in kayak with seal skin float, Canadian Arctic
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DOC WHITE / Inuit hunter in kayak with seal skin float, Canadian Arctic
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DOC WHITE / Inuit hunter in kayak preparing to throw harpoon, with seal skin float behind, Canadian Arctic
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Peter Bassett / Dozing bull Elephant seal {Mirounga genus} close-up of nose, South Georgia.
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Pete Oxford / Southern elephant seal {Mirounga leonina} moulting on stoney beach, Falkland Islands.
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Sue Flood / Inuit women make clothes from seal and caribou skins, Nunavut, Baffin Island, Canadian Arctic
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Flip de Nooyer / Southern Elephant Seal (Mirounga leonina) close up of molting around eye, South Georgia Island
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Michael Hutchinson / Close up of forelimb flipper of Grey seal {Halichoerus grypus} England
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Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Northern Fur Seal (Callorhinus ursinus) cross-section of seal fur shows dense growth of about 300, 000 hairs per square inch, St Paul Island, Pribilof Islands, Alaska
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Michio Hoshino / Harp Seal (Phoca groenlandicus) pup, Gulf of St Lawrence, Canada
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Pete Oxford / Southern elephant seal moulting (Mirounga leonina). East Falkland Island, Antarctica
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Pete Oxford / Southern elephant seal {Mirounga leonina} hauled up on beach and moulting Surf bay, East Falkland Island.
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Pete Oxford / Southern Elephant seal moulting (Mirounga leonina). East Falkland Island, Antarctica
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Pete Oxford / Harp seal being butchered for its meat and skin. Southern Greenland
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Sue Flood / Inuit child wearing Caribou and Seal skin clothes. Nunavut Canadian arctic June 2000
