“I sent it again, and it came back as seal skin again.” Comparing DNA from five chemises with DNA from seals confirmed that the covers were indeed seal skin. Four of the chemises are ...

Like the PWC, the Inuit had abundant access to seal skin and oil, but most importantly, skin boats. Mysterious artifacts, ...

or “ivalu”, clean seal skins and then sew them together to cover the boat frame. The process is often a chance for gathering. For Utqiaġvik traditional skin seamstress Flora Patkotak ...

The people who created the Pitted Ware Culture may have used seal hides to build boats ... "may represent direct evidence of Neolithic skin boat use," the authors wrote in the study.

Christian Horn/Journal of Maritime Archaeology Other evidence includes large amounts of seal oil found at PWC sites—a material that would have been perfect for waterproofing skin boats.

Strange “hairy” covers of books in medieval Europe were made from seal skin obtained from Viking descendants, a new study has found. It is rare to find medieval manuscripts in their original ...

A trove of books written by medieval-era French monks were bound with bizarre “hairy” covers from far-away ... in Champagne were made with seal and walruses skin from areas such as Greenland ...

Other than the color, the reason why the monks chose to bind their books in seal skin remains a mystery. “We have no written records to explain why monks chose to cover these manuscripts in ...