I watched Gary feed seal blubber and meat to his lively pack of beautiful huskies, chatted a while longer and sloped off to the Zodiacs.
Beruna glared as he walked past to join Okawi, her hands full of seal blubber, a bone knife beside her on the sand.
At the potlatch dinners of the Kwakiutl, rival chiefs, through proxies, would vie to see who could eat the longest strip of seal blubber soaked in fish oil.
In 1853, after two unsuccessful attempts, one of Nidever's men, Carl Dittman, discovered human footprints on the beach and pieces of seal blubber which had been left out to dry.
The seal blubber used for heating during this expedition resulted in considerable staining of the interior walls and contents.
And at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Inupiat House offers a menu of seal, caribou, whale blubber and moose.
The Eskimos would kill polar bears by freezing coiled slivers of bone inside a snowball flavored with seal blubber and leaving it on the ice floes.
Three women who had clearly lived through many "great darknesses" expertly placed cotton and moss wicks on the edge of three soapstone platters brimming with seal blubber.
Look at that old oil lamp - it's burning seal blubber, isn't it?
The seal blubber is used to make seal oil, which is marketed as a fish oil supplement.