Eskimo tribes are shown to allow wife-sharing among friends as long as it is consensual and wife agrees. Tribesmen are also shown to sometimes have multiple wives as long as they can provide the meat. The arrangement is shown but no intimacy other than nose rubbing is viewed on screen.

Unethical ship's captain is shown to treat Eskimos as an inferior people. He purposely separates pretty young wife from husband during fur trade negotiation over the husband's protestation. He is shown plying her with liquor until she is dead drunk and then dragging her off for an implied sexual assault/rape. She is bribed with cheap trinkets. He does this several times with the one woman. It is implied all Eskimo women appear to be fair game and are targeted similarly. No explicit nudity or sex is viewed.

Early in the movie an Eskimo woman bears her breast to feed her baby. The whole breast is visible for only a second or two.

Hunting is shown where birds and animals are spared but but nothing goes to waste. Eskimo is shown just as he prepares to cut the throat of one sled dog for survival from starvation. He is shown being attacked by a predator and having to stab and kill it.