Cruise of the whaler Herman to the Arctic. The whaler at sea. Crew members eat walrus meat on board. They arrive at Indian Point. Native Eskimos arrive in large whale boats and come aboard the whaler. Captain Pedersen trades guns and other items for fur with the natives. Skin and fur from the trade on the ship deck. Eskimo natives are landed on the ice after the trade. The whaler leaves the port. Men in boats, pack purchases to be taken to the village. A native Eskimo is seen.
Cruise of the whaler Herman to the Arctic. The whaler at Point Barrow, the Northern most point of Alaska. An Eskimo village. Houses, tents, natives and families. Clothes dry on a clothes line. Esquimau mothers pose. A house in the background. A baby named Woodrow Wilson. The most northerly school in the world. Children sitting. Children learn at a manual training shop.
Cruise of the whaler Herman to the Arctic. Reindeer herding at Point Barrow. The largest herd of reindeer in Alaska. The herd grazes in a field. Natives near tents. Natives with reindeer. A reindeer camp in summer. A native holds two puppies. Men brand a young reindeer. A herder and his family outside their tents.
Cruise of the whaler Herman to the Arctic. 4th of July at Point Barrow, Alaska. An Eskimo village. Natives climb up a rope ladder. They take their place on a raised platform with the United States flag flluttering atop. Esquimau man and woman. H. Liebes and Co., a whalebone and fur company in the village. A 104 years old Esquimau woman. An Esquimau man, 'Happy Joe' and another man display their face ornaments.
United States Army Air Corps Alaska Flight Project begins in Washington DC. YB-10 bomber (tail number 151) takes off from Patterson Field, Ohio, heading for Washington, DC, the official starting point for the operation. A few Martin YB-10 aircraft taxiing at Bolling Field, Washington, DC (20 MacDill Blvd SE, Washington, DC 20032, USA). Several Martin YB-10 bombers parked in a line, with ground crews attending them. Chief of the United States Air Corps, General Benjamin Delahauf Foulois; United States Assistant Secretary of War Harry Woodring and Commander of the Alaska Flight, Colonel Henry H. Arnold, stand along with the Alaska Flight pilots, in front of a project airplane, number 143, painted with the project logo: an eagle perched over a map of Alaska. Secretary Woodring meets and shakes hands with the pilots.
Cruise of the whaler Herman to the Arctic. The crew is welcomed at Point Hope. The natives seated during the welcome ceremony. The men's dance. Men perform a dance while others play instruments. Women dance. Susie the champion dancer gives a solo performance. Native children and families. Native man with hair dressed for mourning.
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