| Summary: | Two Inuit identified as a native and his wife stand with their backs to the camera in the deckhouse of the whaling schooner Era, Cape Fullerton, Hudson Bay, Canadian Arctic, February 1, 1905. They are identified as members of the Show nock tonu [?] tribe. Infrastructure Lifestyle Title supplied by cataloger. Information from original envelope identifies this as photo 18, #63. "Show nock tonu" may refer to the Saquaqturmiut people of the area around Baker Lake and south of Chesterfield Inlet. The schooner Era was built in 1847 at Boston, Massachusetts. She was a New London whaling vessel until her last voyage out of that port in 1892; her masters included James Monroe Buddington, John O. Spicer, and George Comer. She was wrecked off Miquelon Island, July 27, 1906. 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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