Two Boats of the Arctic

This baleen boat was a gift to us from friends in Barrow, Alaska in 1999.

 The baleen boat is a prized possession of ours and will always hold a place of honor in our home.

This is the explorer schooner Elvira, before she was crushed by arctic ice in the Beaufort Sea.
Photo by W. E. Hudson, 1913.

I was struck by the similarities between this boat (the schooner) and the baleen boat above.

I have always displayed them together.