1930s ESKIMO LIFE & WALRUS HUNT DOCUMENTARY by DONALD B. MACMILLAN 62964

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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[@fasx56]

Fortunate that this historic film of almost ninety years ago has been preserved so this generation can see how Eskimos lived before modern times.

[@astraluna6is9]

It was modern times when this was filmed

[@thedata831]

@@astraluna6is9you beat me to it.

[@rafevelly7295]

90 years just pass by but history lives on thank you for sharing your story

[@XDarket]

McMillan! He was my Grandfathers friend! I never met my grandfather cause he died before I was born. But when he was a kid he used to greet McMillan! Because he always brings candys to the kids of Northern Greenland! He has a nickname in Inuit Eskimo. He is called "Naalagapaluk". It means "Leader". He also knew my grandfather because he was a son of Matthew Henson. There was also another kid he knews, his name is Kali Peary which is a son of Robert E. Peary. Kali was like a brother to my Grandfather Anaukaq.

[@Hipyon]

Keep on rocking man

[@samuelmorado70]

How Awesome. Too bad many North American Indian tribes didn’t last as long as the indigenous people of the Arctic

[@Danny-ez7dg]

I love finding these hidden jems on KZbin

[@garychynne1377]

happiest and healthiest people on earth. we can't say that any more. this was really interesting film. thank yew

[@KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking]

2:36 - Big bull? That's clearly a juvenile with tiny tusks. Probably 2 years old. 5:10 - Walrus do not use their tusks to "dig" clams. They feel for them with whiskers, and suck them from the shell. 5:50 - Fish _are_ animals. (I guess they meant "mammal.") 9:00 - The "woman's knife" - appears to be a small "ulu" blade. Fascinating. I hope someone restores this one day. Thanks for the upload.

[@Leoatwallacerockhole]

so u a real know all now after almost 100 years and Google at your finger tips. Take it for what it is way back when man relied on his ingenuity to survive. Fascinating.

[@19jake23]

I think their "white whale" was indeed a Beluga.

[@Hipyon]

I have gained much inspiration from the Inuit it's the closing remarks I focus on happy and healthy

[@yuhaz]

Great vid, thx!

[@XDarket]

Also on Christmas he dressed as Santa Claus but since my grandfather and his friends (when they were kids) didn't exactly know Christmas and Santa Claus they got scared and ran away. And McMillan had to say:"It's me! McMillan!"

[@edsworkouts6460]

Love the videos. :-)

[@craiga6557]

This is how humans are meant to live

[@vicentegutierrez2203]

Great footage

[@binko969]

Fascinating. Imagine trying to film this with a turn of the century style camera

[@pamtnman1515]

Fabulous film

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[@russellking9762]

the best thing we could have ever done for these people was if allocated them the whole of the Arctic and the majority of Alaska… create a buffer zone in between and left them alone…they did not need anything from us..not our christianity our schools or technology…we forced it all on them and look at them now

[@matthewmann8969]

Walruses, Seals Sea Lions, Whales, Oxens, Caribous, Deers, And other Arctic and Sub Arctic creatures must offer lots of nutrients, vitamins, proteins, fats, And richness

[@hazelpearson7807]

No sea lions, oxen or deer in the high arctic

[@edwardabrahamiii3742]

Cool

[@okeydokokey3575]

Among the healthiest people on the planet eating a 100% meat diet. But down here in the US they tell us meat is going to give us heart disease. Interesting.

[@clement6574]

Same everywhere buddy. France here. Never listen to government's advices.

[@4scended498]

Walrus meat doesn’t have the shit processed out of it

[@hazelpearson7807]

The diet has changed since the 60’s, chocolate bars, chips, pop and general junk food is in huge demand. Most of the young adults prefer TBone to seal meat.

[@one_up907]

@@hazelpearson7807 nope I prefer seal it's the best tasting meat in my opinion then walrus then whale.

[@mishakolomoicev9701]

I prefer koala then wombat, & if there’s nothing else Goanna.

[@boathousejoed1126]

How is it the Inuit don't contract scurvy?

[@georgejohnson6835]

our foods have vitamin c naturally. seals pinnipeds. whales cetaceans The vitamin is synthesized in the liver of pinnipeds, and to a lesser extent in cetaceans. Vitamin deprivation studies on phocid seals and cetaceans show that daily supplements of vitamin C influence blood levels, but that long term total deprivation has no obvious adverse effects.

[@kaecake9575]

These people influenced my people of The Diné Nation 🕊️

[@rsoul7282]

Meanwhile, I just get in my car, drive down to the shop and fill it up with whatever the hell I feel like. No walrus hunt required. Until society collapses.

[@janesmith9024]

They were even more sustainable and one with nature before we gave them guns and cigarettes. Pity we have no footage of them before we corrupted them.

[@astraluna6is9]

This was after almost 40 years after the first contact with Europeans. Read about Knud Rasmussen and the Thule Expeditions. It will be all you need to know about the last of the isolated areas on this earth.

[@chrisyuri4187]

Awesome, did the eskimo's sell the ivory south like the sami did in Russia?

[@POPERYLEE]

Yes and animals pelts

[@benitomorales577]

Eskimo is based on true story of peter freuchen

[@BG-it7hb]

I would not last a day in that climate, forget about hunting for food not to speek of a walrus.

[@georgeq8279]

I still like to be called eskimo

[@bbruce995]

holy shit, this has to be the first kayak, these people actually made a water tight boat , what kind of technology did they come from? its not the white man who is special, its the eskimo who are genius, what kind of technolgy did they have to know how to keep it air tight, and could turn over and write themselves. this is not something that comes from a primitive species

[@KFrost-fx7dt]

Other races had space flight when this was filmed.

[@duanebuhler6240]

Just watched a video of a white guy hunting walrus and it was 2-1 downvoted

[@mishakolomoicev9701]

Why don’t they just go to the 7/11?

[@humanbean1424]

Its cool how they imitated the kayak from the western world and use it to their advantage.

[@hazelpearson7807]

They didn’t imitate, the western world imitated their ancient kayak design

[@one_up907]

Lol we did not imitate, there have been boats and kayaks that have been found from the ookvik era thousands of years old, harpoons, harpoon heads counterweights, seal floats ect.

[@humanbean1424]

@@one_up907 They word Kayak is obviously American, 🙄. I can go down to wallmart and there bunch of em.

[@one_up907]

@@humanbean1424 lol it's called qayaq Edit: it cause American's cannot pronounce the q like us Nore the g, gg, gh, gghh, the q sounds we make, when they try to pronounce the Q they make the K sound

[@humanbean1424]

@@one_up907 Oh so we're making up words now? Pshh.. What are you going to tell me next, that english didnt invented tea?

[@Mdmdndndn]

The first part is fake becaus it says .com