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Traditional Native festivities often included ceremonial objects like this bowl.
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Feasting Bowl

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Elders bless a new canoe with lighted sage, song, and traditional dances.
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Blessing a New Canoe

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Whalers hunted right whales for baleen, which was used in a variety of commercial products such as umbrellas and whips.
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Ad for Whale Baleen Umbrellas

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The Raven Spirit is now prominently displayed in the Smithsonian’s Sant Ocean Hall.
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The Canoe's Permanent Home

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Master carver Douglas Chilton rides in the Raven Spirit canoe at its ceremonial launch.
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The Tlingit Raven Spirit Canoe and Carver, Douglas Chilton

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a blue negative of algae
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No Longer Anonymous: Anna Atkins and her Algae

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Why Do We Explore the Ocean?

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a wood frame dries walrus hide
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Walrus Hide

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the covering of a skin boat is broken away revealing the frame
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An Umiaq Frame

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a skin boat model with oars
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The Umiaq

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A 3D rendering of a man wearing a blue and white fish skin robe, standing on a boat in the ocean.
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3D Render of an Ainu Fisherman in a Fish Skin Robe

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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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