Inuit women playing game inside snow house, Cape Fullerton, Hudson Bay, Canada

• Main Authors: Comer, George (Creator), Lockwood, F.C. (Creator)
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: Ownership Statement: Mystic Seaport 1904
• Subjects: Inuit women; Games; Arctic; Bedford; Brooklyn; Canada; Cape Fullerton; Hudson; Hudson Bay; Lockwood; New Bedford; inuit
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:5327

A group of Inuit women are inside a snow house at Cape Fullerton, Hudson Bay, Canada, 1904. They are playing a game identified as "Nug lug tug." Lifestyle Infrastructure 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. The game is identified in Comer's original caption. Slide prepared by F.C. Lockwood of Brooklyn, New York, from an original photograph by Captain George Comer. Slide was used by Comer to illustrate lectures about his Arctic and seafaring experiences.