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California road trip: the road to Mendocino - Daily Telegraph
23 May 2012, 8:53 pm
Eleven thousand years ago, Quiroshe hunters pursued the greys in
sealskin craft (the whales migrate between the Arctic and Baja California). Quiroshe were the first Americans. Millennia came and went, and Portuguese shore whalers from the Azores settled ...
The Whale Hunt in Barrow - Abington Mariner
20 May 2012, 6:05 pm
A particular kind of crack in the ice tells them it’s time to stop chopping and bring the uguruk, a
sealskin boat that can slide quietly into the water. Hunters might (or might not) still use the traditional boat. Their weapons, however ...
Celebrating the Whale Hunt - Abington Mariner
16 May 2012, 10:06 pm
I’ve tasted whale blubber. I draw the line at the traditional blanket toss. A group holds the edges of a walrus or
sealskin blanket and tosses a whaling crew member in the air while he throws candy to the participants. The tossed celebrant ...
Orbit tower: a drunken party animal of a building - The Guardian
11 May 2012, 1:15 pm
They are deeply, organically, warmly and carnally red, a red of freshly exposed arteries and organs. As ever-changing
sealskin clouds slide through the sky around it, the tower seems a living being, full of blood, equipped with mysterious organic innards.