This woman is using an ulu to scrape the hair from a sealskin that will be used to make boots. The remarkable sealskin boot, waterproof as well as comfortable, has long been coveted by both white man and Indian. At the time this photograph was taken, around 1910, the Inuit women of Labrador were selling hundreds of pair of boots each year to stores and to visiting schooners from Newfoundland. Photograph by S.K. Hutton.
