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Photos are taken on the island of Lembata, which is a province of Indonesia. Its inhabitants point out that hunting the white whale is old, dating back at least six centuries.

Swiss photographer Claudio Seber has conveyed the whole event, where locals kill many whales in one year.

Fishermen use large wooden poles to strike giant whales.

After being caught, crew members keep water on the edge of a blooded ceremony, broadcast Periscope.

We're living in machine age! However, the number of white whale seizures has not increased, despite the ownership of motorships”, said Yosef Bataona, head of the village of Lamalara.

Last year we caught 25 whales. A few years ago we caught 40, but sometimes we couldn't catch one. We need, on average, to kill three whales in one year to feed all our families”./Periscopi/