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a skin boat model with oars
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The Umiaq

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The excavation site of an Inuit home in Hare Harbor, Quebec, Canada
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Excavation of an Inuit House

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A young visitor holds up his painted fish Gyotaku fish print at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History
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Gyotaku Fish Print

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A researcher takes notes at the site of an ancient shipwreck recently discovered in Mazotas, Cyprus. The ship went down in the 4th century B.C. loaded with expensive and sought-after wine from Greece.
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Cyprus Shipwreck Discovery

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A walrus sits on top of ice.
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One Hundred Names for Sea Ice

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In the 19th century, many women wore tight corsets that were stiffened with stays made from baleen.
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Whale Products in Fashion

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Yankee Whalers: An 1856 Currier & Ives print shows whalers harpooning a right whale.
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The “Right” Whale to Hunt

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Douglas Chilton uses traditional carving tools to shape the Raven Spirit canoe.
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Carving the Canoe

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Fish swim around the wreck of the HMT Bedfordshire, an Arctic fishing trawler that was converted into an anti-submarine warship during World War II, and sunk off the coast of North Carolina.
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Fish Swim Around Shipwreck

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Aerial view of two bowhead whales swimming in the ocean.
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Bowhead Whale: One Species at a Time

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This painting of swarthy buccaneers in the midst of a fierce battle was painted by the prolific American marine painter Frederick J. Waugh, and won the Thomas B. Clarke award in 1910 for the best American figure composition.
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The Buccaneers painting

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Eugenie Clark collecting specimens on a dive.
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Eugenie Clark - The Shark Lady

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