Eskimo Walrus Hunt is a black and white, documentary and educational film showing how Eskimos hunt walrus for food. It was produced about 1920 with the narration talk-over added in the early 1930’s. The narrator was Commander Donald B. MacMillan, a noted arctic explorer, who was a protégé of Commander Peary. (Donald Baxter MacMillan [November 10, 1874 – September 7, 1970] was an American explorer, sailor, researcher and lecturer who made over 30 expeditions to the Arctic during his 46-year career. He pioneered the use of radios, airplanes, and electricity in the Arctic, brought back films and thousands of photographs of Arctic scenes, and put together a dictionary of the Inuktitut language.)

Donald B. MacMillan discusses the hunt location, Sunrise Point (0:20-0:37). An Eskimo hunter sitting in a skin kayak (0:37-0:46). Herd or Pod of Walrus splashing in the water (0:46-0:56). Hunter paddling his kayak then gets out on the ice (0:57-1:14). A pack of Dogs pull a dog sled with equipment (1:15-1:28). An Eskimo hunter gets into his skin kayak and paddles out to hunt (1:29-2:00). Another hunter gets into his skin kayak and paddles out to hunt (2:01-2:29). An Ice burg floating in the water with a walrus in the background (2:30-2:38). A walrus lying on a piece of an ice burg (2:39-3:08). An Eskimo paddling to shore and pulling his kayak ashore (3:09-3:34). An Eskimo showing his harpoon. Ivory shaft ball and socket with rawhide thongs to hold it in place, and a steel point set in ivory on the tip (3:35-4:06). The Hunter inflates a seal skin with air and ties it onto the harpoon rope so the skin will float keeping the walrus from diving deep and getting away (4:07-4:27). A hunter pushes his kayak off the ice (4:27-4:37). What a skin kayak looks like (4:38-5:03). He paddles out to sea. Ice burg in the background (5:04-5:10). The Hunter approaches a herd or pod of walrus (5:11-5:20). Eskimo harpoons a walrus (5:26-5:35). Another hunter harpoons a walrus and follows the seal skin bag (5:46-6:04). When the walrus comes up for air, the hunter finishes him off (6:05-6:44). Getting the walrus up onto the ice (6:45-7:04). Towing the 3,000 pound walrus to shore (7:05-7:30). Rolling the walrus on shore using a parbuckle method (7:31-7:53). The Walrus is cut up, everything is used in some way (7:54-8:05). An Eskimo man with a walrus head (8:06-8:15). Two boys paddling in their seal skin kayak bringing in a white whale (8:21-8:38). The White whale lying on the ice (8:39-8:55). Butchering the whale (8:56-9:03). Eskimo woman eating raw whale meat (9:04-9:33).

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