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A musk ox (Ovibos moschatus) pelt, stretched on a wood frame, drying in the sun outside the house of an Inuit hunter in Qaanaaq, Northwest Greenland.

A musk ox (Ovibos moschatus) pelt, stretched on a wood frame, drying in the sun outside the house of an Inuit hunter in Qaanaaq, Northwest Greenland.

Preparation of the pelt for traditional use as a blanket or clothing requires several days and many hours of labor. This pelt has been partially prepared -- the remaining congealed blood and fat tissue must still be scraped off, and the remaining skin attached to the fur must be fully dried.

Fishing boats and massive icebergs shed by the Jakobshavn Isbrae glacier in Ilulissat Icefjord at sunset, West Greenland. The town of Ilulissat at the edge of Disko Bay, West Greenland A fishing Boat approaches the Ilulissat harbor in Disko Bay, West Greenland. The Ilulissat harbor, filled with fishing boats, in a small fjord connected to Disko Bay in West Greenland. The pink glow of a mid-October dawn illuminates the colorful small houses of Qaanaaq, and the newly-forming sea ice in Murchison Sound, Baffin Bay, Northwest Greenland. Qeqertarsuaq (Herbert Island) is in the distance.. Sunrise in the town of Qaanaaq, at the edge of Murchison Sound in Baffin Bay, Northwest Greenland. Collecting ice to make water, Qaanaaq, Northwest Greenland. Strips of narwhal (Monodon monoceros) meat hanging to dry next to a small boat at the Baffin Bay shoreline in Qaanaaq, Northwest Greenland. Small boats glow in the early morning light along the shoreline of Qaanaaq, at the edge of Murchison Sound in Baffin Bay, Northwest Greenland. Small boats and colorful houses glow in the early morning light along the shoreline of Qaanaaq, at the edge of Murchison Sound in Baffin Bay, Northwest Greenland. An adult male musk ox (Ovibos moschatus) tumbles down a hill in Northwest Greenland after being shot by indigenous Inuit hunters. Inuit hunters butcher an adult male musk ox (Ovibos moschatus) they have killed for food, and remove the animal's pelt. Inuit hunters butcher an adult male musk ox (Ovibos moschatus) they have killed for food, and remove the animal's pelt. Inuit hunters butcher an adult male musk ox (Ovibos moschatus) they have killed for food, and remove the animal's pelt. A small boat is filled with walrus and musk ox meat after a subsistence hunt by indigenous Greenlanders in remote Northwest Greenland. An ulu and other traditional Inuit tools for scraping animal hides and preparing leather and finished animal pelts, Northwest Greenland. A musk ox (Ovibos moschatus) pelt being prepared traditionally for use as a blanket or clothing, by scraping with an ulu to remove remaining fat tissue and congealed blood. A musk ox (Ovibos moschatus) pelt, stretched on a wood frame, drying in the sun outside the house of an Inuit hunter in Qaanaaq, Northwest Greenland. Inuit hunter Kristian Eipe wearing the tradtional clothing he uses when on a hunting expedition, in the modern setting of his home in Qaanaaq, Northwest Greenland. A young Inuit child looks out a window in Qaanaaq, Northwest Greenland.