Seal Meat

Information on Walrus & Arctic Seals

Inuit family eating traditional foods at a Birthday party in Qaanaaq. N.W.Greenland. 1998

Inupiaq (eskimo) woman cuts sealmeat with an ulu(Woman's knife). Barrow. North Alaska. 1997

Inuit family eating traditional foods at a Birthday party in Qaanaaq. N.W.Greenland. 1998

Polar Bear feeding on a seal kill on sea ice. The Arctic

Polar Bear feeding on a seal kill on sea ice. Glaucous gulls wait their turn. The Arctic

Anastasia Pilanto, a Chukchi woman, butchers a ringed seal on her kitchen floor. Uelen, Chukotka, Siberia, Russia. 2002

A table of traditional North Greenlandic foods. Thule, N.W. Greenland. 1998

Inupiaq (eskimo) women cut sealmeat with ulus (Woman's knife). Barrow. North Alaska. 1997

Selling fresh sealmeat down by the harbour. Ilulissat, (Jacobshavn), West Greenland

Inuit from Arctic Bay gather out on the ice for an Easter feast of Arctic Char & seal meat. Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. 2005

Inuit girls eat raw seal liver on a summer hunting trip. Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. 1992

Sealskins and drying whale meat hanging on a hunter's meat rack in Moriussaq. N.W. Greenland. 1987

Leopard Seal with a penguin it has killed and is eating. Antarctica

Glaucous gulls sit on the remains of a bear killed seal and call to each other, Svalbard

Before a bithday party, Avigiaq Sadorana sets out traditional Inuit food (raw halibut, salmon, whale meat and musk ox) for his guests on the floor of his home in Qaanaaq. Northwest Greenland. 2008

Two male polar bears eating seal meat, whilst small hungry mother trys to join their meal. Part of a sequence. Spitsbergen.

Male polar bear and small female eating seal meat, her cub waits on the next ice floe. Part of a sequence. Spitsbergen.

Male polar bear and small female eating seal meat, her cub waits on a nearby ice floe. Part of a sequence. Spitsbergen.

Adult male Polar Bear on summer sea ice, eating a seal it has killed. Spitsbergen.

Adult male Polar Bear on summer sea ice, eating a seal it has killed. Spitsbergen.

Adult male Polar Bear on summer sea ice, eating a seal it has killed. Spitsbergen.

Adult male Polar Bear on summer sea ice, dragging a seal it has killed. Spitsbergen.

Adult male Polar Bear on summer sea ice, dragging a seal it has killed. Spitsbergen.

Adult male Polar Bear on summer sea ice, dragging a seal it has killed. Spitsbergen.

Adult male Polar Bear on summer sea ice, dragging a seal it has killed. Spitsbergen.

Polar bear with seal kill on sea ice, Glaucous gull hangs around for scraps. Spitsbergen

Inuit from Arctic Bay gather out on the ice for an Easter feast of Arctic Char & seal meat. Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. 2005

Inuit elders from Arctic Bay pray before an Easter east of Arctic Char & seal meat. Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. 2005

Inuit from Arctic Bay gather out on the ice for an Easter feast of Arctic Char & seal meat. Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. 2005

Young polar bear dragging a seal it has killed in the summer pack ice near Spitsbergen

Glaucious Gulls squabble as they wait for a Polar Bear to leave its kill so they can eat. Spitsbergen.

Young polar bear with a seal it has killed in the summer pack ice near Spitsbergen

Inuit hunters eat seal intestines while marooned on an ice floe in Nares Strait. Thule, Northwest Greenland. 1977

Inuit hunters butcher a bearded seal they have caught at its breathing hole. Northwest Greenland. 1980

Inuit hunters butcher a Bearded Seal and load the meat onto their sled. Northwest Greenland. 1980

Inuit woman, Saufak Kivioq, in hunting hut, uses an ulu (women's knife) to clean a sealskin. N.W. Greenland. 1980

Puto Angina, an Inuit woman with a sealskin on a drying frame, on the beach at a summer hunting camp in Inglefield Bay. Narwhal meat can be seen drying above her. Qaanaaq, Northwest Greenland. (1971)