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2002, Louis-Jacques Dorais, 'Inuit', Aboriginal Peoples of Canada, ed. Paul Robert Magocsi, University of Toronto, page 135:
In many regions, people went inland at the end of August (often travelling upriver in large sealskin boats called umiat) to hunt caribou till September or October.
2013, Jørn Riel, Den lange rejse, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN:
I løbet af vinteren reparerede Sølvi og Narua den gamle konebåd, som Katauk havde lovet dem, og de fik megen hjælp af bopladsens ældre koner, der havde tilbragt hver sommer af deres liv med at sejle på langfart i disse store umiakker.
