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Baleen
Baleen Arts and Crafts Baleen: “A Whale of a Story: The Inupiaq of northern Alaska have hunted bowhead whales and collected baleen for hundreds of years. Although called ‘whalebone’ by Westerners, baleen is a fibrous sieve-like material that grows on … Continue reading
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