The skin of the bearded seal is tougher than regular seal and was used to make shoes, whips, dog sled harnesses, to cover a wooden frame boat, the " Umiak " and in constructing summer tents known as " tupiq ".
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""'Umiak I " "'is a purpose-built ice-strengthened bulk carrier constructed for the Voisey's Bay Nickel Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Vale Inco, to transport ore from the Voisey's Bay Mine.
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Like most Greenlandic trading posts, it was a location for the Danes to trade imported goods for seal skins and seal and whale blubber gathered by cod fisheries and it was as common to see the large " woman's boat " or umiak as the smaller hunting kayaks.
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Bockstoce had made two previous trips through the Northwest Passage : first in an umiak or open Eskimo boat made of walrus skin, a voyage completed over eight summers; and later in a heavy steel motor sailer, Belvedere, a passage that took six summers, broken into segments.
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You can rent a pair of snowshoes manufactured by the Stowe-based Tubbs Snowshoe Co ., the largest maker of snowshoes in the world, from Umiak Outdoor Outfitters ( 849 South Main St .; 802-253-2317; www . umiak . com; snowshoes and poles, $ 10 for a half-day, $ 15 for a full day ) or at any of the other outdoors and ski shops in town.
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You can rent a pair of snowshoes manufactured by the Stowe-based Tubbs Snowshoe Co ., the largest maker of snowshoes in the world, from Umiak Outdoor Outfitters ( 849 South Main St .; 802-253-2317; www . umiak . com; snowshoes and poles, $ 10 for a half-day, $ 15 for a full day ) or at any of the other outdoors and ski shops in town.
