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Description: | model umiak, flat-bottomed boat with double prow and stern, 5 moveable figures, 4 paddles, ivory trimmings
"The Inuit of Arctic America live in an extreme climate, with sub-zero temperatures for a great deal of the time. They use all the possible resources available to them for food, clothing and tools and are ingenious in their use of every part of an animal and also flotsam. They were excellent model-makers, during the 19th century trading models with European settlers and traders in exchange for useful raw materials such as cloth, iron, beads and rifles. This is a model of a large, open skin boat known as a 'umiak' or women's boat. It is made from fish-skin stretched over a wooden frame, in much the same way as the real boat is made from skins stretched over a wood or whalebone frame, and with wooden seats. There are five figures, one in the bow and four in the stern who each have a paddle, carved from wood and edged with ivory, as the real ones would have been in bone. They are dressed in parkas which have been made from cloth and edged with ribbon, probably of European origin. In the bow is a small wooden frame with an ivory harpoon rest in the shape of a fishtail. The model is an accurate depiction of a piece of Inuit equipment and also an example of a complex sourcing of materials. The umiak is made from locally-sourced fish-skin and wood, but the figures are clothed in traded cloth and ribbon, then the whole model was traded again. The model comes from Greenland."
Author: Feilden,Rosemary Date: 2000 Purpose: SCRAN
Acquisition source: Reid, Captain Charles | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDUA University of Aberdeen, Marischal Museum | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1850-1912 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Creator: | Inuit | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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