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Whale Hunting
Michael Alvard Ph.D.
colour boat tracks

Boat
Start Time
End Time
Average Speed (kph)
Distance (km)
Baka
10:42 pm
5:05 am
4.58
30.61
Demo
10:22 pm
5:25 am
4.21
29.73
Horo
10:09 pm
5:35 am
3.96
29.47
Manula
10:30 pm
5:12 am
4.54
30.41
Muko
10:23 pm
5:17 am
4.51
31.13
Praso
10:30 pm
5:23 am
4.16
28.60

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Location: Lamalera, Lembata, Indonesia [S 8° 34'33.6" E 123° 14' 156.4"]
Date: 07/10/1999
Total Track Length: 179.95 km
Method: Six Sailboats

"The data was collected in the village of Lamalera, located on the island of Lembata, in the province of Nusa Tenggara Timor, Indonesia.
The village is one of two in the Indonesian Archipelago that practice subsistence whaling.
The primary prey are sperm whale, Physeter catadon, and ray."

http://people.tamu.edu/~alvard/lamalera/thumbs.htm - more photos of the hunting village
http://people.tamu.edu/~alvard/Whale%20paper.pdf - (.pdf) technical paper with some ethnographic description of the field site

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