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ESKIMO & WALRUS TUSK IMAGE
Photograph by Joel Sartore
A way of life

An Eskimo hunter displays the tusks of a slaughtered walrus in Togiak National Wildlife Refuge. Native Americans reserve the privilege to subsistence hunting and fishing on most refuge lands in Alaska, but their gathering of such resources as goose eggs has contributed to the depletion of some populations.

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