| Summary: | An Inuit woman with facial tattoos poses inside the deckhouse on board the whaling schooner Era at Cape Fullerton, Hudson Bay, February 18, 1904. She is identified as a ""Kenepitu woman known as Starboard Eye, this shows the tattooing on the face of that tribe."" Lifestyle Title supplied by cataloger. Information from original envelope identifies this as Photo #78, #35. The Inuit identified as Kenepitic, Kenepetu or Kenepitu were from the Chesterfield Inlet region; the modern designation for the group is Qaernermiut. 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, including the Era. Comer participated in voyages involved in polar expeditions and was noted for his studies of Arctic peoples and their environment.
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