Cutting up White Whale

Collection

“Cutting up White Whale,” Inuvialuit Cultural Centre Digital Library, accessed June 15, 2025, http://slisdlibdev.srv.ualberta.ca/items/show/3573.

A photo of Silas Palayaq (Agnes Nigiruq’s adoptive dad) cutting up a white whale at Horton River.

This photo collection was used during the interviews of the Aulavik Oral History Project to get the names of people previously not identified.

Image

N1991-068-0209 (NWT Archives)

Physical collection housed at the NWT Archives.