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Gelatin silver print - Umiak boat frame, before cover is put on, Alaska, about 1925 | McCord Museum
Ossature en bois d'un umiak avant l'installation des peaux, Alaska, vers 1925
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Ossature en bois d'un umiak avant l'installation des peaux, Alaska, vers 1925
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Gelatin silver print

Umiak boat frame, before cover is put on, Alaska, about 1925
Artist
SignatureNon signé / Unsigned
InscriptionsNote in ink on back: The skin boat frame is put together with out nails or screws. The timbers are lashed with sinew. The boat frame "gives" a little to the force of the seas under it. After a long cruise your foot sinks low in the skin & you can SEE the flow, thro the skin under the boat
Date About 1925
Medium / Technique Silver salts on paper
Gelatin silver process
Dimensions8.7 x 11 cm
ClassificationCommunication Objects - Documentary Objects - Graphic Documents
Origin Canada
Object NumberMP-0000.1971.3
DivisionPhotography - Documentary Collection
CollectionMcCord
Status
Not on view

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