Kōrero: Whaling

Stripping the whale (3 o 3)

Stripping the whale

Once dead, the whale was hauled to the mother ship and attached to the side. The whalers would begin the tough task of cutting off the blubber.

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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: PUBL-0004
Etching with aquatint, hand coloured by John Hewside Clark

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Jock Phillips, 'Whaling - Pursuit and capture', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/artwork/6260/stripping-the-whale (accessed 29 March 2024)

He kōrero nā Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 12 Jun 2006