Already the umiaks of the Esquimos peopled with women and children had followed the ebb-tide down to the great Bay, bound for their autumn hunting camps along the north coast.
Then when the umiaksof the Esquimos began to arrive from the coast, packed with tousle-headed children and the priceless sled-dogs, taking Fleur, Jean sought out his old friend Kovik of the Big Salmon.
On the left of the red man are two umiakswith five men in each, a whale nearly effaced, and three of the cross-shaped objects already mentioned.
At this season exploring parties are out every day examining the state of the ice to ascertain when the pack is likely to break away from the landfloe, and also to find the best path for the umiaks through the hummocks.
Those men who are, or have been, captains of whaling umiaks that have taken whales have marks to indicate this tattooed somewhere on their persons, sometimes forming a definite tally.
In describing the umiaks at Hotham Inlet he says: "The model differs from that of the umiak of the Hudson Bay in being sharp at both ends.
There is very little accessible detailed information regarding the umiaks used in the rest of Alaska.
During the season of open water many seals are shot from the umiaks engaged in whaling and walrus hunting or caught in nets set along the shore at Elson Bay.
The umiakswhen walrus hunting sometimes meet with bears among the loose ice.
From all accounts the animal is only casually pursued elsewhere with fleets of kaiaks orumiaks manned by volunteer crews.
Kayaks and umiaks dotted the beach; dogs came down to the shore and stared at the ship.
This bone came out in umiaks and was stored with the other baleen in the forehold.
They usually fastened from kayaks or umiaks and drove in as many irons as they could.
The sight of the umiaks and the knowledge that this might make or mar, to a great extent, the resources of the party, put ginger into Roger, and the way in which that little boat was urged over the water was almost incredible.
The steamer's boat was waiting as the umiaks ran in, for they had been sighted some hours before.
Next day many umiaks and kayaks set out to the eastward, and when they had rowed a long way in, they asked: "Where is it?
And when Asalôq then went up on the hillside to look out, he saw many umiaks coming from the northward, and they camped on the shady side.
The construction is similar to that of the Alaskan umiaks except that the Koryak umiaks have double-chine stringers and also a double riser, or longitudinal stringer, halfway up the sides.
Early umiaks in this area are said to have had mat sails; later ones used sails of skin and drill.
In stormy weather some of these umiaks and also some of those in Alaska employ weather cloths, 18 or 20 inches high above the gunwales, raised on short stanchions lashed to the hull frames.
The three examples of Alaskan umiaks serve to show the features that are most common in the area.
The eastern Greenland umiaks generally have rather wide headboards and somewhat more projection to the gunwales.
The old Greenland umiaks were built with lashed joints combined with pegging, or treenailing.
Umiaks of this model were used at Point Barrow and vicinity in offshore whaling, and were also used for travel and cargo carrying.
Some of the Greenland umiaks have curved side frames which cause the side battens to form knuckles in the skin cover.
Boas shows that some of these umiaks have rudders hung on metal pintles and gudgeons, a result of the influence of the white traders, whalers, and sealers who had operated in these waters long before Boas made his investigations.
In present day umiaks the amount of ~V~ in the bottom is slight; too much would make the boat difficult to sledge overland without employing chocks to steady the hull.
In the larger umiaks two side battens were employed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "umiaks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
