Muktuk

Bowhead Whale (the whale most often used in Muktuk / Mungtuk)

Muktuk is the Inupiaq Eskimo word for the traditional meal of whale skin and blubber. In the Siberian Yup'ik language of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, this same food is called Mungtuk. It is most often made from the skin and blubber of the bowhead whale, which has been hunted for subsistence throughout the northern Bering Sea for centuries. Amongst the Inuit of the Canadian Eastern Arctic this same food is called Muktaaq and may originate from Narwhal, Beluga or Bowhead whale. Usually eaten raw, it is occasionally finely diced, breaded, deep fried and served with soy sauce.

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