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Record #5302:
Whale-fishing in the Faroe Isles / H.C. Müller.
Title: | Whale-fishing in the Faroe Isles / H.C. Müller. |
Author(s): | Müller, H. C. |
Date: | 1887. |
Publisher: | Edinburgh: Blackwood and Sons |
Abstract: | Sysselmand and native of Faroes has attended more than 100 Grindefangsts. He describes history of this hunt and meaning of grind, life cycle of Globicephalus melas, pilot whale, hunt (herded like sheep) and its rules, suitable whale voes, innovations in driving, "sickening butchery" and its proceeds, sharing and statistics over time and by season. |
Keywords: | 639.24 -- Marine mammals, hunting. 639.245.1 -- Whaling industry. H6 -- Zoology: mammals. (*3) -- Arctic regions. (*37) -- Faroe Islands. |
Location(s): | SCO: SPRI-PAM: (*37) : 639.245.1 |
SPRI record no.: | 5302 |
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