Inuit children in snow house, Cape Fullerton, Hudson Bay, Canadian Arctic

A group of Inuit children stand and sit inside a snow house at Cape Fullerton, Hudson Bay, January 6, 1901. Infrastructure Lifestyle Title supplied by cataloger. Information from original envelope identifies this as Photo #77, #34. Taken by Captain George Comer (1858-1937), a sealer and whaling capt...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Comer, George (Creator)
Format: Still Image
Language:unknown
Published: Ownership Statement: Mystic Seaport 1901
Subjects:
Inuit children
Inuit
Children
Igloos
Dwellings
Arctic
Bedford
Cape Fullerton
Hudson
Hudson Bay
New Bedford
inuit
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:5438
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Summary:A group of Inuit children stand and sit inside a snow house at Cape Fullerton, Hudson Bay, January 6, 1901. Infrastructure Lifestyle Title supplied by cataloger. Information from original envelope identifies this as Photo #77, #34. 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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