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The sand is dark and smooth and wet, gleaming like sealskin as the water pulls back.

Ilya said, “Well, ah, does she...Are there any sealskins in your home at all?”

The dogloo walls were made from blocks of ice, and the roofs were frozen boards of sealskin with snow piled on top.

He met with survivors inside a school, sat outside on a chair covered in sealskin and faced the Arctic Sea as he listened to throat singers and watched drum dancers.

Because of extensive hunting for their sealskin, these seals had been declared extinct in the early 20th century.