Sadlermiut whaling - Public domain drawing
Summary
Sadlermiut man on an inflated walrus skin.
Captain Lyon's drawing of a Sadlermiut in 1824. The Eskimo came out to the ship on a float of three inflated seal-skins which he prpelled by a slender paddle of whale's bone. The flint-headed arrow and two dreied salmon were a peace-offering. (By: W. E. Taylor: The Mysterious sadlermut. In: The BeaverWinter 1959, Hudson's Bay Company, page 29)
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Date
1900 - 1950
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Wikimedia Commons
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Public Domain