Title taken from caption on slide. "Drying ugruk skins and full seal oil pokes Yaiyuk Harris and wife Sishoalikroaq 1952." [The name Yaiyuk is also spelled Yiyuk in this collection. Ugruk means seal, probably bearded seal.]
Title taken from caption on slide. The ugruk (seal, probably bearded seal) hide is used, after drying, to make part of the traditional footwear. It is also used as a container.
Title from donor notes. Photograph of Mary Cox and Beatrice Vincent skin a bearded seal. They appear to be using ulus or women's knives. A dog waits nearby.