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Kodiak Islanders demonstrate the use of hunting weapons, 1818. The standing hunter is dressed in a parka made of the skins of cormorants, a kind of seabird. He is using a throwing board to launch a bird-killing dart. Two of the men wear spruce root hats. Painting by Mikhail Tikhanov. Courtesy of the Scientific Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts.