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| Title | Eskimos in umiaks alongside the GEO. W. ELDER, Plover Bay, Siberia, July 1899. |
| Photographer | Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942 |
| Date | 1899 |
| Notes | From album entitled: A Souvenir of the Harriman Alaska Expedition, May - August, 1899. Volume II, Cook Inlet to Bering Strait and the Return Voyage, leaf 157, right.
Umiaks were boats made of walrus skins stretched over wooden frames.
Caption on image: Eskimos in Umiaks, Plover Bay, Siberia
Photograph taken by Dr. Clinton Hart Merriam, Chief of the Biological Survey, U.S. Department of Agriculture, member of the 1899 Harriman Alaska Expedition. |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Yuit Eskimos--Clothing & dress--Russia (Federation)--Plover Bay
Steamboats--Russia (Federation)--Plover Bay
Leather garments--Russia (Federation)--Plover Bay
Fur garments
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899)
George W. Elder (Steamship)
Yuit Eskimos--Boats--Russia (Federation)--Plover Bay
Parkas--Russia (Federation)--Plover Bay
Plover Bay (Russia)
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| Location Depicted | Russia--Siberia--Plover Bay |
| Digital Collection | Harriman Alaska Expedition Collection
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| Order Number | HAR052 |
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| Negative Number | NA2107 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Harriman Alaska Expedition Collection. PH Coll 333
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| Object Type | Photograph |
| Physical Description | silver gelatin, b&w
Safety film copy negative (4 x 5 in.), B2/F14, good |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 72 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3. 11/1998. |
