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a wood frame dries walrus hide
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Walrus Hide

 Skin boats are the only marine boats to use seal and walrus skins to cover the boat...
a sketch of a kayak design
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Kayak Sketch

 A kayak frame was built of driftwood, a readily available building material in much...
A plastic bag floats at sea.
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Plastic Bag Bans Work

 There is a huge amount of plastic trash floating in the ocean, which endangers...
A stormy sea lashes the village of Shismaref, Alaska, where the coastline has eroded 30–90 m (100–300 ft) in the past 30 years.
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Shismaref, Alaska

 A stormy sea lashes the village of Shismaref, Alaska, where the coastline has...
a seven inch fragment of an Inuit soapstone pot recovered at Hare Harbor in Quebec, Canada
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Inuit Soapstone Pot

For over a decade, Smithsonian Arctic Archaeologists have been investigating an...
A point made of Ramah Chert that belonged to the early Eskimo group known as the Groswater Dorset Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center
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Early Eskimo Point

About 2,500 years ago cold climate brought the first Inuit peoples into the Gulf of...