Each year during the season the Native Alaskans can get a ticket to hunt for one Musk Ox. This year Stewart got to go with Mr. Boyscout (his nickname is OX) and hunt for a Musk Ox. You can use the Musk Ox wool to weave beautiful warm hats and scarves. The wool on a Musk Ox is worth thousands of dollars. I was not allowed to go on the hunt, but when they brought the Musk Ox back in with them, I got to watch them skin it and then cut up the meat to freeze or dry. The young man in the photo is only 12 years old and this was his very first Musk Ox hunt.
The Musk Ox is not really that big once you get his coat off. In one of our photos you can see the herd in the background. In another, you can see me, Flat Stanley, with the Musk Ox hide. I did not like all the blood, but that is what they call subsistence living - the Cup'ik people have to kill or catch whatever they eat.
Each year during the season the Native Alaskans can get a ticket to hunt for one Musk Ox. This year Stewart got to go with Mr. Boyscout (his nickname is OX) and hunt for a Musk Ox. You can use the Musk Ox wool to weave beautiful warm hats and scarves. The wool on a Musk Ox is worth thousands of dollars. I was not allowed to go on the hunt, but when they brought the Musk Ox back in with them, I got to watch them skin it and then cut up the meat to freeze or dry. The young man in the photo is only 12 years old and this was his very first Musk Ox hunt.
The Musk Ox is not really that big once you get his coat off. In one of our photos you can see the herd in the background. In another, you can see me, Flat Stanley, with the Musk Ox hide. I did not like all the blood, but that is what they call subsistence living - the Cup'ik people have to kill or catch whatever they eat.
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