In Utqiaġvik’s endless winter darkness, Inupiat elders carve stories into bowhead whale bones—a 1,500-year-old narrative tradition preserving Arctic history. Each vertebra becomes a “page” etched with scenes of whale hunts, shamans transforming into ravens, and 19th-century encounters with whaling ships.
The bones, salvaged from subsistence hunts, serve as communal archives. Elders like Ada Uluġaq teach children to read the glyphs: zigzags for sea ice cracks, circles for breathing holes, dots for seal fat rendered into oil. Scientists recently discovered a 17th-century bone depicting a volcanic eruption—likely Indonesia’s Tambora event that caused the “Year Without Summer.”
Climate change threatens both whales and tradition: warming waters alter migration routes, while permafrost melts erode bone-preserving tundra. Yet the Inupiat adapt, incorporating drone footage of whale pods into new carvings. Their bones now hang in museums from Oslo to Seoul, whispering Arctic resilience to a warming world.
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