Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Inuit hunter flensing (removing blubber from) dead Narwhal (Monodon monoceros) near Qeqertat, Northwest Greenland, 1985. 40 BELOW bookplate.

Paul Ensor / Antarctic Minke Whale (Balaenoptera bonaerensis) taken apart by Japanese whalers, Ross Sea, Antarctica

Flip Nicklin / Bowhead Whale (Balaena mysticetus) being flensed by Inuits in background while others load muktuk, the skin and outermost layer of skin, onto sleds, Barrow, Alaska

Flip Nicklin / Bowhead Whale (Balaena mysticetus) being flensed by Inuits in the background with muktuk, the skin and outermost layer of skin, displayed on snow, Barrow, Alaska

Flip Nicklin / Bowhead Whale (Balaena mysticetus) being flensed by Inuits, Barrow, Alaska

Paul D Stewart / Woodcut illustration of whale slaughter with old colouring from Gesner 'Icones Animalium' publ. Christof Foschover, Zurich, 1560. Gesner appears to derive this image partly from Olaus Magnus 'Historia...