Inuit skin tent, Hudson Bay, Canada

View of an Inuit skin tent in the Hudson Bay area of the Canadian Arctic, ca. 1897-1912. Items appear to be hanging on a rope that extends from a tent pole to another pole visible to the right. Infrastructure Lifestyle Title supplied by cataloger. Information from original envelope identifies this a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Comer, George (Creator)
Format: Still Image
Language:unknown
Published: Ownership Statement: Mystic Seaport 1897
Subjects:
Inuit
Tents
Dwellings
Arctic
Bedford
Canada
Hudson
Hudson Bay
New Bedford
inuit
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:5341
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Summary:View of an Inuit skin tent in the Hudson Bay area of the Canadian Arctic, ca. 1897-1912. Items appear to be hanging on a rope that extends from a tent pole to another pole visible to the right. Infrastructure Lifestyle Title supplied by cataloger. Information from original envelope identifies this as # 181. Such tents provided shelter for the Inuit during summer. 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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