Whale Hunting
Michael Alvard Ph.D.
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 |
GPSograph_
Shockwave Viewer
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