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content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Series 2: Basque: Innovation by Culture / 2.3: Audio
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content: 1 Sound recording (digital audio file)
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content: 2016 July 09
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content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.2016, Item SFF2016_0709_Basque_Euskaldunak_Dialogues_0008
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content: Archival materials
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Listening copies available
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content: Argia Beristain (presenter); Eda Moramendiezroz; Irati Anda; Martin Goikoetxea; Xabier Paya (participants) Red Bay off of Labrador, Canada, now a World Heritage site, was the fifteenth century whaling capital of the world. In 1978, Canadian archeologists discovered the remains of a txalupa, a small, swift whaling boat called the San Juan. The Albaola Sea Factory, a traditional shipbuilding workshop in Pasaia (Gipuzkoa), is currently rebuilding the ship, using thirty years of meticulous records kept by the archeologists, traditional tools, materials, and techniques. In the process, Albaola's many talented craftsmen, students, and volunteers are learning anew how Basque ships were made. Along with discovering the San Juan, archaeologists have discovered hints that tell of the everyday life of Basque whalers. These discoveries have included remnants of hunting technology, try-works, and the large economy surrounding oil. Scarce whales and many European competitors led to the decline of Basque whaling in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Join this discussion with engineers from Albaola to learn about this underwater history.