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Seal hunt
Seal hunt. Inuit hunters cutting a bearded seal into pieces. They are wearing polar bear fur covering their legs. Inuit people mostly hunt for ringed or bearded seals. The most common method is to lie in wait for a seal to appear from its breathing hole in the ice. The hunter, using a rifle shielded by a white blind, crawls along the ice until he is close enough to shoot. Seal meat provides food for Inuit people and their dogs. The skin is used to make waterproof shoes, known as kamiks. Melting ice and receding glaciers caused by global warming is altering the subsistence lifestyle of many Inuit people and the animals they hunt. Photographed in Qaanaaq, Greenland, in 2006.
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