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Indigenous whaling traditions along the Pacific Northwest coast date as far back as 4000 years BCE and are deeply intertwined with the culture of many pre-contact Indigenous peoples in these territories. [1] Amongst the Nuu-Chah-Nulth, Makah, and Ditidaht (also known as the whaling people) similarities in whale hunting practices can be found. [2]
Whaling stations operated in Alaska and on the Canadian west coast. American Pacific Whaling Company, with headquarters in Victoria, British Columbia, operated ships and a plant in 1912 at Gray's Harbor, Washington with catcher ships ranging from the Canada–United States border south to Cape Blanco in Oregon.
The Makah Tribe was also a whale hunting tribe. They especially hunted gray whale for its size and weight. Some times while hunting, they traveled 30, 40, or 100 miles out to sea. The Makah in the early nineteenth century inhabited Cape Flattery, Washington. According to the Lewis and Clark expedition, they then numbered some 2,000.
By the 18th century, the Azores’ resident population of sperm whales was drawing attention from the United States. Whaling ships from Nantucket and New Bedford, Massachusetts, would make the ...
A pod of orcas, also known as "killer whales," treated spectators to a display as they stealthily hunted for birds off the Seattle coast. Video shows orca pod hunting bird in 'dazzling' show ...
Whaling, by Abraham Storck Dangers of the Whale Fishery, by W. Scoresby, 1820 Whaling off the Coast of Spitsbergen, by Abraham Storck. Encouraged by reports of whales off the coast of Spitsbergen, Norway, in 1610, the English Muscovy Company (also known as the Russian Company) sent a whaling expedition there the following year. The expedition ...
These killer whales beached themselves while hunting for seals on a sandbar south of Prince Rupert. Captain Doug Davis and Debbie Davis went out to monitor the whales until the tide rose high ...
More than 55,000 artifacts were recovered, spanning a period of occupation around 2,000 years, [6]: 171 representing many activities of the Makahs, from whale and seal hunting to salmon and halibut fishing; from toys and games to bows and arrows. Of the artifacts recovered, roughly 30,000 were made of wood, extraordinary in that wood generally ...