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luggage-boat Obs. 
n. a skin boat, 30-40 feet long, 4-5 feet wide, and 3 feet deep, having a flat bottom and narrowing at bow and stern, used for carrying freight and passengers and traditionally rowed by Eskimo women. [See picture at oomiak.]
See also: oomiak
- 1748 These Boats move very slowly, and are called Luggage-Boats, by those who use Hudson's Streights, this seem to be for the Convenience of transporting their Families and Provisions, as their Fishing and Hunting makes it necessary.
- 1820 (1963) . . . the Indians spied an Esquimeau luggage boat coming in and waylaid the Esquimeau behind rocks. . . .
- 1885 The umiak is a flat-bottomed skin luggage boat, open at the top, generally rowed by women.
- 1748 These Boats move very slowly, and are called Luggage-Boats, by those who use Hudson's Streights, this seem to be for the Convenience of transporting their Families and Provisions, as their Fishing and Hunting makes it necessary.