Inuit using stoves outdoors, Canadian Arctic
Three Inuit using stoves outdoors. Typewritten at top: "Cooking on the Ice in days before we had/Kerocene [sic] Stoves". Typewritten on rear: "Snow had to be melted for drinking and/ cooking when we were out whaling in the/ early spring. This was before we had Kerosene/ stoves. When t...
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Ownership Statement: Mystic Seaport
1897
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:5174 |
| Summary: | Three Inuit using stoves outdoors. Typewritten at top: "Cooking on the Ice in days before we had/Kerocene [sic] Stoves". Typewritten on rear: "Snow had to be melted for drinking and/ cooking when we were out whaling in the/ early spring. This was before we had Kerosene/ stoves. When they came out we could remain/ in the boats and cook our coffee and food". Lifestyle Livelihood Title supplied by cataloger. Taken by Captain George Comer (1858-1937), a sealer and whaling captain from East Haddam. He went to sea while still in his teens and was later master of vessels from both New London and New Bedford. Comer participated in voyages involved in polar expeditions and was noted for his studies of Arctic peoples and their environment. |
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