#143 bidarka

bidarka- a canoe covered in animal skins, especially sealskin, used by the Eskimos of Alaska

-C19 from Russian baidarka

The bidarka is a frail, narrow framework over which is stretched walrus skin, and it is so fashioned that the crew sits, one behind the other, in circular openings with legs straight out in front.

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