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These seal skin covered boats called umiaks were made by the men and then the covering was stitched together by the women. Light, flexible, and fast, they are essential during the whale hunt. Barrow, Alaska.

Credit to read: Photo by Frank Kelley (PolarTREC 2008), Courtesy of ARCUS

Photographer: Frank Kelley
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PolarTREC
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North Slope, Alaska
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