Catalogue information Record 4353
Model Umiak. Model boat, of dressed skin stretched over slight wooden frame, stitched over the gunwale to the inside wearing which supports the (six) thwarts; three oars ivory tipped; some stitching has given way and a thwart is broken.
A type of boat called an "umiak"; an Eskimo women's boat. A souvenir of the Greenland whaling. (Also see SEA 65734 from the same donor)