Nalukataq whale feast at Utqiaġvik, 1947
This 1947 film by Alaska filmmaker Bill Bacon contains scenes of whale meat and muktuk being distributed at the Nalukataq whale feast at Utqiaġvik, people eating and celebrating, blanket toss, Alaska Native dancers and drummers, and children running and chasing after a large vehicle (Color/Silent/16mm film). This sequence contains excerpts from AAF-20079 from the William W. Bacon III collection held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. For more information please contact the Alaska Film Archives. The Alaska Film Archives appreciates your support. Your donation in any amount will help us continue important preservation work. Please visit the “About” section of our YouTube channel to learn how you can help today. Thank you! For more information please contact the Alaska Film Archives.

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