Objects
Kayak. Aleuts
Kayak. Aleuts
Title
Ethnic groups
Aleuts
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