Inuit group (Santa Anna and family) in front of skin tent, (Cape Fullerton) Hudson Bay, Canadian Arctic

• Main Author: Comer, George (Creator)
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: Ownership Statement: Mystic Seaport 1905
• Subjects: Inuit; Inuit children; Children; Family; Tents; Dwellings; Arctic; Bedford; Cape Fullerton; Hudson; Hudson Bay; New Bedford; inuit
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:5434

Eight Inuit identified as Santa Anna and family sit and stand in front of a skin tent, Hudson Bay, probably at Cape Fullerton in February, 1905. Infrastructure Lifestyle Title supplied by cataloger. Information from original envelope identifies this as Photo #46, #68. 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.