Sentence examples for sealskin from inspiring English sources

The town thronged with men in white anoraks and women in kalaallisuut, an outfit of sealskin boots and trousers set off with a beaded top.

Just before the prime minister left for China, his office distributed a picture of the prime minister accepting a notebook covered with sealskin from the mayor of an Arctic community.

A cooperative now operates a handicraft program for producing stuffed sealskin animals and birds, with emphasis on the ookpik (Arctic owl).

Of particular note are sealskin kayaks of the Eskimo people of North America.

Like several other Northwest Coast Indians, the Nuu-chah-nulth were whale hunters, employing special equipment such as large dugout canoes and harpoons with long lines and sealskin floats.

Characteristically a quiet and gentle cat, the Russian Blue is a solidly coloured, blue-gray cat with round, green eyes and soft, silky fur that resembles sealskin in texture.

The traditional clothing of the Moriori was of sealskin and coarsely woven flax.

Tagaq, who is thirty-nine and has jet-black hair and a girlish face, had removed her sealskin boots and was sitting barefoot on the floor of the Diker Pavilion, a large oval space on the museum's ground level.

In among the shirts and ties, I spotted two men dressed in the brightly colored tunics of the Sami and several others wearing sealskin vests.

Every day fat pigeons gathered on the roof of Thorsteinn's shelter, catching the pale sunlight on their burnished feathers, mole gray, dove gray, sealskin gray.

The sealskin-like water-repellent fabric, whose surface drag has been tested in NASA wind tunnels, is so taut that I suggest you have on hand a third assistant who knows C.P.R. Speedo, a British company, is one of the world's largest swimwear-makers, and its 2008 LZR Racer is the fastest suit ever, worn in the Beijing Olympics by more than ninety per cent of the gold medallists.