umiak
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of umiak
First recorded in 1760–70, umiak is from the Inuit word umiaq “women's boat”
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Both bodies were wrapped in blankets, placed in a native umiak to be towed to Point Barrow.
From Time Magazine Archive
His chronicle of a voyage in an umiak, an open skin-covered Eskimo craft, from Nome to a fragment of rock called King Island, is a masterpiece of terse narrative and clinical observation.
From Time Magazine Archive
As soon as they came to the place, they cut the moorings of the umiak, and hastily made all ready, and rowed out to the farthest islands.
From Eskimo Folk-Tales by W. J. Alexander (William John Alexander) Worster
Thoroughly familiar with the native methods of life and of travel, this officer, Captain G. F. Holm, Royal Danish Navy, adopted the safest, indeed, the only, method of coast transportation—in the umiak.
From True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Adolphus W. Greely
And the umiak and its crew of women stayed there, and wintered in that place.
From Eskimo Folk-Tales by W. J. Alexander (William John Alexander) Worster
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