What is "sealskins"

Usage examples of "sealskins".

The men and women closing in around Quick Ben were one and all dressed in close-fitting sealskins decorated with bone, antler and shell.

Her captain, May hew Folger, was one of the first Yankee skippers who were beginning to round the Horn, venture into the Spanish waters off the American coast, and steer west into the vast and little-known South Sea, in search of sealskins, whale oil, or trade.

A woman clad in oiled sealskins jostled Alain and the child awake and, with an expression of urgency, beckoned to Alain to follow her.