File:Eskimos in umiaks alongside the GEO W ELDER, Plover Bay, Siberia, July 1899 (HARRIMAN 181).jpg

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English: Eskimos in umiaks alongside the GEO. W. ELDER, Plover Bay, Siberia, July 1899.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
Clinton Hart Merriam  (1855–1942)  wikidata:Q721433
 
Clinton Hart Merriam
Alternative names
Merriam; Clinton H. Merriam; C. Hart Merriam
Description American anthropologist, ornithologist, zoologist, entomologist and botanist
Date of birth/death 5 December 1855 Edit this at Wikidata 19 March 1942 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death New York City Berkeley
Work location
Washington, D.C. Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q721433
Title
English: Eskimos in umiaks alongside the GEO. W. ELDER, Plover Bay, Siberia, July 1899.
Description
English: 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
  • 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)
Depicted place
English: Russia--Siberia--Plover Bay
Date Taken on 1 July 1899
Medium
English: silver gelatin, b&w
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
University of Washington: Special Collections
Accession number
181
Source
English: Harriman Alaska Expedition Collection
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HAR052

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