Iceland
whaling station Hvalfjordur
Whale flensing like any form of
butchery is a messy and bloody process. The scale of the butchery
makes for very bloody and emotive pictures. A similar picture
could be taken inside a slaughter house anywhere in the world,
it's just the size of the dead animal that would differ. How
pleasant a picture this is irrelevant to the whale, the important
part is that it is dead and how it died.
This is another odd subject for a
postcard, but that's what this picture is. The date is probably
the 1950's or 1960's and is of shore flensing of a small whale by
a flenser with the traditional implement a long slightly curved
blade 12-18" long on the end of a 3-4ft handle.
Postcard
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