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Kayak. Aleuts

Title:

Kayak

Ethnic groups:

Aleuts

Territory:

Aleutian Islands

Date:

Late 19th century – early 20th century

Collectors:

Museum of the Peoples of the USSR

Material:

Wood; leather

Number:

РЭМ 8761-10390

Annotation:

Kayak, a single-hatch boat, with a wooden frame of narrow and wide bent battens and a wooden ring, the hunter’s seat. On the outside, the frame was covered with a dressed bearded seal skin. A hunter going sea hunting sat, wearing a kamleika, sat in the kayak and tied the stretched skirting of the kamleika around the ring. This enable the sea hunter out at sea to continue hunting in bad weather. Abstract by V.V. Gorbacheva

Albums:
Arctic. Hunting and fishing
Rus:
Лодка – каяк. Алеуты