Drying skins on a snow wall, Cape Fullerton, Hudson Bay, Canadian Arctic

• Main Author: Comer, George (Creator)
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: Ownership Statement: Mystic Seaport 1901
• Subjects: Whaling; Inuit; Arctic; Bedford; Cape Fullerton; Hudson; Hudson Bay; New Bedford; caribou; inuit
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:5409

View of an Inuit woman working with animal skins, probably caribou, alongside the whaling schooner Era, Cape Fullerton, Hudson Bay, Canadian Arctic, March 25, 1901. The process she is engaged in is described as a method of drying skins by pegging them to a wall of snow. Environment Livelihood Title supplied by cataloger. Information from original envelope identifies this as photo 38, # 65. 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. Description of the woman's activity is from Comer.