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The Last Beluga Fisherman
Location: Pointe de la Rivière Ouelle, Rivière-Ouelle, Quebec, Canada

 
Men using high tide to retrieve the belugas that were caught
19 of 46 		Horse hauling beluga carcass ashore
20 of 46 		Boy hauling a recently captured beluga ashore
21 of 46 		Beluga tail, pierced and with a cable attached, to anchor it to the "menoires"
22 of 46 		Beluga fishery employees stripping a mammal of its blubber
23 of 46 		Workers start cutting up belugas, even before all are on the beach
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Carving up a beluga using knives and iron hooks
25 of 46 		Men looking at belugas stripped of their skin and blubber
26 of 46 		The two buildings in which beluga blubber was melted, and the stable in the background
27 of 46 		Belugas on the shore before being cut up
28 of 46 		Gathering during the extraordinary catch of 1929
29 of 46 		Dignitaries and Joseph Lizotte Sr., during the extraordinary catch of May 1929
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Children among belugas during the extraordinary catch of May 1929
31 of 46 		Extraordinary catch of May 1929
32 of 46 		Postcard of the extraordinary catch of May 1929
33 of 46 		Back of the postcard for the extraordinary catch
34 of 46 		Beluga cemetery, skulls from the extraordinary catch of 1929
35 of 46 		Detailed image of two beluga vertebrae
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