A user of a different stack exchange site recently mentioned a supposed polar bear killing technique devised by Inuit hunters. I found it quite difficult to find any other source for the story, but eventually managed to track down a reference to a book from 1919, Ethnography; a partial and preliminary description of the races of man by Loomis Havemeyer and Albert Galloway Keller, and turned up the following quote from page 151 of the original (or page 163 from this online copy): In hunting th...