EXHIBITS-TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE

Presented are the NSB Department of Wildlife Management’s results on their long term research on the bowhead whale.  The research was based on collaboration with Iñupiat elders; combining traditional knowledge and western science to understand bowhead whales.

  Displayed are harpoons found from 1981-1997 inside captured whales.  It was found that these were over 100 years old, proving that whales live that long, even though scientists had disputed this.

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