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This item is a recording of an interview conducted by George Simeon in 1982-1984 with George Washington Porter. In this recording, Porter discusses his experience whaling on ships throughout Alaska and the Siberian Coast. He discusses the process of making muktuk and the uses of blubber. Porter also discusses the difference between home accommodations of Inuit in Alaska and Inuit in Siberia. He accounts his time as a reindeer herder for Louman Brothers. and recalls Laplanders in Siberia herding reindeer and having reindeer races. He also discusses Laplanders parading reindeer with Inuit from Alaska in Philadelphia and Baltimore in the United States. Porter recalls whaling and huting walrus around Banksland, Herrold Island and Cape Elizabeth and what the Inuit did with the whale and walrus. Inuit men would sell seal grease oil prsssed in tanks when they went on the ship to America. Later, American ships would have Inuit sail with them to hunt and skin walruses.

This item is a recording of an interview conducted by George Simeon in 1982-1984 with George Washington Porter. In this recording, Porter discusses his life as a boy whaling with his father, and his travels as a young man working on ship and traveling to places such as Seatle, Washington; Havana, Cuba; Jamaica, and Siberia. Porter also discuses his time in the American army during WW1 and his travels to California, Virginia and New Jersey. He accounts his experience when the Armistice was signed. Porter knew Arctic explorer and ethnologist, Vilhjalmur Stefansson and talks about what he remembers about him. Porter also discusses the difference between Inuit in Alaska and Inuit in Siberia including the different styles of clothing, dog sledding, and homes.

Transcript of interview by George Simeon with George Washington Porter.

Please note that the transcript uses an outdated term to refer to Inuit. We have reproduced these terms in the digitized document because they are part of the original historical record.

Interview by George Simeon with George Washington Porter.

Interview by George Simeon with George Washington Porter.