Far more graphic than shown in even these photos, the annual fall harvesting of bowhead whales by the North Slope inupiat of Barrow, Alaska, is a festive, communal event that brings 200-300 of the 3,500 residents out onto the arctic shores, to butcher and load away a treasure trove of whale meat. The children are desensitized to the bloody butchering bestowed upon these behemoths - you see one child here atop a fallen cetacean. Another playfully stomped his boots on the intestines of another that has gushed out onto the snowpacked ice, making a sickly squishing noise and contributing to a purplish smear that lent a macabrely beautiful coloring to the ice.