The day Hilltop went with the men in an umiak to hunt whales in a lead was even more exciting.
Then they quickly pulled the umiakout onto the ice and waited.
Below the line at the left is an umiak with five men, and then a row of twelve conventionalized whales' tails, of which all but the first, second, and fifth are joined to the horizontal line by a short straight line.
These on Nikawaalu's umiak were each a single round pole about 2 inches in diameter.
It takes an umiak a day to travel the length of the lake under sail with a fair wind, and when the Nunatanmiun coming from the south first saw the lake they said "Taxaio!
The same is true of the Aleutian "baidara," if, indeed, the latter be an umiak at all.
When the umiak is fitted out for whaling a stout #U#-shaped crotch of ivory or bone, about 7 inches long and 5 wide, is lashed between the gunwales where they meet at the bow.
When Kovik appeared in his umiak with his squat wife and family, there was a general handshaking.
His canoe was out of reach on the cache with the Husky's kayak, and the clumsy skin umiak of the family was useless for quick work.
The chief departed from the Pole Star's side after bundling aboard his umiak all of his trade stuff and relatives.
A large umiak appeared from the ice of the strait, and in its bow stood a chief, who called Stirling's name.
The river may freeze in a single night and the umiak be unable to withstand the constant strain of the sharp-edged cakes of floating ice.
The two assist him to rise and the heavy load is taken to the umiak and placed in the bottom for ballast.
The covering of theumiak is made of skins of the largest seals.
If he has the energy to become a successful hunter he will soon be able to make a kaiak, and thus procure the marine mammals whose skins will afford a covering for an umiak and in the course of time additional skins for a tent.
All the portable possessions of the family are taken in these boats, which are often loaded to such a degree that the older people have to walk along the shores and only go into the umiak to relieve some one who desires to walk.
During the winter months the umiak is placed on staging of posts to protect it from the ravages of mice and other animals.
The skins and poles can be transported when the umiak is able to carry them.
Some of the men are too improvident to prepare these skins when they have the opportunity, and thus they are unable to own a kaiak, which prevents them from providing themselves with the umiak and tent.
The tent is taken from place to place by means of the umiak when the food supply of a locality is exhausted or another region promises greater abundance.
So they put all their belongings into the umiakand when they were on the way they seized the woman and cast her overboard.
As the bottom of the umiak is flat the sides of the bottom are formed of square rails of sufficient length and given the desired spread.
And when he had straightened out all their arms, he went out of that house the strongest of all, and went out to his umiak and rowed away southwards with his wife.
An umiak started out on a journey, and the people in it were hurried and forgetful.
And the umiak and its crew of women stayed there, and wintered in that place.
The strong man had already got out the umiak [3] into the water to row out to the whale.
The umiak dashed off, but it seemed as if it were standing still, so swiftly did the whale overhaul it.
When this umiak was examined, the skin cover was in such a condition that the number of hides used could not be determined, but it probably is comprised of three sea-lion skins sewn together.
The umiak possesses this advantage because of its very light hull weight in combination with a nearly flat bottom and flaring sides.
The light draft also makes the umiak easy to propel manually.
The decked hunting canoe, the kayak, is propelled by paddle alone when used for hunting and fishing, but is occasionally towed by the umiak when the owner travels.
The skin cover of the umiak is not rigidly attached to the frame in a number of places, but rather is a complete unit secured only at the gunwales and to the heads of stem and stern.
The Eskimo soak the skin cover of the umiak with animal oil and pay the seams with blubber or animal fat.
The skin cover of the north Alaskan whaling umiak is made of bearded seal or of walrus hide, which has to be split, because of its weight.
The umiak is a close second, but of the two, the kayak is safer under all conditions of Arctic travel.
The floor timbers are on edge instead of on the flat as in Alaskan boats and this seems to be characteristic of all eastern umiak construction, as is the arching of the underside of the floors.
This umiakis about the size of, and in profile greatly resembles, a New Bedford whaleboat.
We run fast, and well enough, but the umiak (skin boat) we are pulling begins to suffer.
A big umiak comes to us with many natives bringing the usual trade, and on it, much to my pleasure, are both Doctor Jenness and Mr. Garber.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "umiak" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
