| When partly buried in the snow and covered with the summer sealskin tupik it is really comfortable. |
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| She looks sleek in a beige, almost flesh-tone, summer dress and a slightly darker cardigan that fits her like a sealskin. |
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| During playtime, the purebred German shepherd will run circles around anyone wearing sealskin and whine for a chew. |
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| As it turns out, the beauty queen, on leave from finishing a doctorate in chemistry, never wore the sealskin garment by Dolorosa Nartok. |
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| Winter boots of caribou or seal can have a depilated sealskin foot with a furred upper. |
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| It can be made from a variety of pelts and hides including leather, sealskin, mink, racoon, rabbit or pigskin in hundreds of different styles. |
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| It produces sealskin fashions and it is involved in buying carvings as well. |
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| If we had a midwife, she would keep the sealskin, or if it was a ptarmigan, she kept the skin as well. |
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| Mother sews the sealskin kamiks outside the tent because it is too dark inside. |
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| Produced by an Inuit cast and crew, The Fast Runner pays close ethnographic attention to the daily details of Inuit life, from building an igloo to making a sealskin drum. |
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| The steering arm thrums under their hand, the deck heaves beneath their feet and the keen salt wind cuts like a knife through even a good sealskin cloak. |
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| A man is lured into a fatal obsession when he is hired to make a sealskin bag for a woman born with her heart outside her body. |
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| He expects to find volunteers or hire workers to videotape elders teaching traditional skills like sewing parkas and sealskin mitts, as well as building sleds and igloos. |
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| No factory-engineered fleece compares to the warmth of a sealskin parka. |
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| The town thronged with men in white anoraks and women in kalaallisuut, an outfit of sealskin boots and trousers set off with a beaded top. |
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| The piece of sealskin was tied down, but the kanaaviniq was not tied down because that's what the seal came up through. |
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| Of particular note are sealskin kayaks of the Eskimo people of North America. |
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| Wood was so scarce, some Inuit used frozen fish wrapped in sealskin as dogsled runners. |
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| The traditional clothing of the Moriori was of sealskin and coarsely woven flax. |
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| The seal hunt did not start all of a sudden just a few years ago because sealskin or fur became popular. |
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| For example, sealskin is scraped clean of all hairs and then sewn to other skins in a watertight fashion for a safe and secure covering. |
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| A small, barrel-shaped sealskin muff might be worn to complete the costume. |
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| The bag and its lid are made up of narrow, folded strips of tanned, dehaired and coiled sealskin stitched with sinew. |
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| Awls can also be used to make the large holes required in the sealskin that goes onto the drying-frame or on skins for kayak covers. |
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| The Inuit wore sealskin boots and mitts throughout the year, while sealskin jackets and trousers were worn in one layer in spring and summer. |
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| These short boots, probably for a girl, are made of depilated sealskin and sewn with sinew. |
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| Parliament has indicated that the majority of its members are opposed to the trade in sealskin. |
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| The boot liners, or stockings, are made of tanned sealskin with the fur to the inside. |
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| Short white or red-dyed sealskin boots were worn exclusively by Kalaallit women. |
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| After the 1982 collapse of the international sealskin market, Inuit hunters were no longer able to support their families by selling sealskins. |
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| From sealskin, we made waterproof boots, jackets, pants, sleeping bags, and whips for the dogs. |
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| In the cold, dry winter months, the hunter wore caribou or sealskin footwear in as many as five layers: stockings, short socks, boots and short overboots. |
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| During the Russian administration of Alaska, banknotes were printed on sealskin. |
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| For tasks in warm weather and wet conditions, sealskin mitts are worn. |
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| Sewing the top of the foot part of a sealskin kamik to the sole. |
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| The stone is lashed to handle with a depilated sealskin thong. |
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| Also very much in fashion were sealskin toques. |
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| Long bearskin mitts are favoured when working with snow, especially when building an iglu or when icing sled runners in springtime because, as with sealskin, the hair does not shed when damp. |
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| Armed with wooden harpoons tipped with mussel shell blades, lines made of whale or seal sinew, and floats made of sealskin, these hardy people launched their small dugout canoes in search of passing humpback or gray whales. |
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| This bag made of coiled sealskin strips and sewn with sinew resembles the grass workbaskets made later in the 20th century by Yup'ik women of southwest Alaska. |
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| Sharkskin as well as sealskin were used as sanding paper in the past. |
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| Just before the prime minister left for China, his office distributed a picture of the prime minister accepting a notebook covered with sealskin from the mayor of an Arctic community. |
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| Like several other Northwest Coast Indians, the Nuu-chah-nulth were whale hunters, employing special equipment such as large dugout canoes and harpoons with long lines and sealskin floats. |
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| Characteristically a quiet and gentle cat, the Russian Blue is a solidly coloured, blue-gray cat with round, green eyes and soft, silky fur that resembles sealskin in texture. |
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| Between the sealskin strips run welts of untanned dark sealskin. |
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| The avataq, or float, was made of sealskin filled with air. |
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| The whaling craft consists of harpoons, lances, lines, and sealskin buoys, all of their own workmanship. |
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| The sealskin industry, our renewable resource, has collapsed, so we are looking for different avenues to maintain the population here in our community. |
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| Made of sealskin and later repaired with canvas, this kayak presented major treatment challenges that required the expertise of conservators from a variety of disciplines. |
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