Sunday 26 August 2012
Skinning Musk Ox, Rypefjord, Eastern Greenland. Aug. 2011
Musk Ox Hunt, Eastern Greenland August, 2011.
Ole Bjorklund, Greenlander and hunter, telling a story about the time a Musk Ox, which his grandfather had just shot, 'came alive' while he was skinning it.
Musk Ox can be notoriously hard to kill, as I witnessed on this hunt, last year. The young hunters were apprentices, and according to Ole, the only spot that ensures the animal will go down first shot, lies three fingers, not four, behind the ear.
After skinning and gutting the three beasts, under Ole's supervision, they were butchered and the meat placed in tough polythene bags, before we all helped lug the bags to the shore and onto our boat.
Everyone in Ole's village has an annual quota of Musk Ox, and meat allocated accordingly.
Ole Bjorklund, Greenlander and hunter, telling a story about the time a Musk Ox, which his grandfather had just shot, 'came alive' while he was skinning it.
Musk Ox can be notoriously hard to kill, as I witnessed on this hunt, last year. The young hunters were apprentices, and according to Ole, the only spot that ensures the animal will go down first shot, lies three fingers, not four, behind the ear.
After skinning and gutting the three beasts, under Ole's supervision, they were butchered and the meat placed in tough polythene bags, before we all helped lug the bags to the shore and onto our boat.
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