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The Last Beluga Fisherman
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Émile Lizotte and his wife, Camille Dionne, on their wedding day
1 of 19 		Men looking at belugas stripped of their skin and blubber
2 of 19 		Gaff head
3 of 19 		Beam similar to the one used by Émile Lizotte to separate blubber from skin
4 of 19 		Oil lamps
5 of 19 		Leather strop for sharpening razors
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On the right, a 100-gallon barrel, like those used to store beluga oil
7 of 19 		Wool wound into a ball using part of a beluga vertebra
8 of 19 		Beluga cemetery, skulls from the extraordinary catch of 1929
9 of 19 		Beluga cemetery and cross at Pointe de la Rivière Ouelle
10 of 19 		Detailed image of two beluga vertebrae
11 of 19 		Letter addressed to Joseph Lizotte from L. Garnier, a priest at the Rivière-au-Tonnerre mission
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Man hunting beluga with a gun, possibly for the $15-per-tail premium
13 of 19 		Bombing a pod of belugas
14 of 19 		Article from Le Soleil, 39th year, Issue 37: "La chasse aux marsouins" [the porpoise hunt]
15 of 19 		Joseph Lizotte and Dr. Vadim-D. Vladikov beside a 3.5-metre-long female beluga
16 of 19 		Dr. Vadim-D.Vladykov and Émile Lizotte beside a 3.22-metre-long male beluga
17 of 19 		"Nos ancêtres à l'oeuvre à la Rivière-Ouelle," written by Madame Elphège Croff
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