In mid-late August I had to travel north again to the village of Nuiqsut for a meeting and to inspect an old landfill site upstream of Nui on the Colville River. Our guide in Nuiqsut was a village elder, who is also a whaling captin. The villagers were prepping for their whaling season which started the next week. We got to see a lot of their traditional whaling equipment. Captin Edward displayed his new hand made harpoon. From Nui I flew across the N Slope to Barrow where I had an afternoon to kill waiting for my flight bck to Anchorage. I decided to play tourist and do some window shopping for native crafts. The locals make all kinds of earrings from fossilized mammoth bones and whale parts.
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