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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Main Author: Comer, George (Creator)
Format: Still Image
Language:unknown
Published: Ownership Statement: Mystic Seaport 1897
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:5341
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spelling ftconnecticstlib:oai:oai:collections.ctdigitalarchive.org:70002_5341 2023-05-15T14:52:15+02:00 Inuit skin tent, Hudson Bay, Canada Comer, George (Creator) East Haddam (Conn.) 1897 - 1912 image/tiff http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:5341 unknown Ownership Statement: Mystic Seaport Source Note: Comer Collection 70002:5341 Accession number: 1963.1767.17 local: ms_m168988.tif http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:5341 Reproduction and copyright information regarding this image is available from The Photography Department, Mystic Seaport, Mystic. Inuit Tents Dwellings StillImage photographs 1897 ftconnecticstlib 2019-06-14T11:42:05Z 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. Still Image Arctic Hudson Bay inuit Connecticut Digital Archive Arctic Bedford ENVELOPE(-67.150,-67.150,-66.467,-66.467) Canada Hudson Hudson Bay New Bedford ENVELOPE(-61.250,-61.250,-73.367,-73.367)
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topic Inuit
Tents
Dwellings
spellingShingle Inuit
Tents
Dwellings
Comer, George (Creator)
Inuit skin tent, Hudson Bay, Canada
topic_facet Inuit
Tents
Dwellings
description 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.
format Still Image
author Comer, George (Creator)
author_facet Comer, George (Creator)
author_sort Comer, George (Creator)
title Inuit skin tent, Hudson Bay, Canada
title_short Inuit skin tent, Hudson Bay, Canada
title_full Inuit skin tent, Hudson Bay, Canada
title_fullStr Inuit skin tent, Hudson Bay, Canada
title_full_unstemmed Inuit skin tent, Hudson Bay, Canada
title_sort inuit skin tent, hudson bay, canada
publisher Ownership Statement: Mystic Seaport
publishDate 1897
url http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:5341
op_coverage East Haddam (Conn.)
long_lat ENVELOPE(-67.150,-67.150,-66.467,-66.467)
ENVELOPE(-61.250,-61.250,-73.367,-73.367)
geographic Arctic
Bedford
Canada
Hudson
Hudson Bay
New Bedford
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Bedford
Canada
Hudson
Hudson Bay
New Bedford
genre Arctic
Hudson Bay
inuit
genre_facet Arctic
Hudson Bay
inuit
op_relation Source Note: Comer Collection
70002:5341
Accession number: 1963.1767.17
local: ms_m168988.tif
http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:5341
op_rights Reproduction and copyright information regarding this image is available from The Photography Department, Mystic Seaport, Mystic.
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