Inuit man and two women on board whaling schooner Era, Hudson Bay, Canada

• Main Author: Comer, George (Creator)
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: Ownership Statement: Mystic Seaport 1905
• Subjects: Inuit; Whaling ships; Schooners; Ships; Era (Schooner); Arctic; Bedford; Canada; Cape Fullerton; Hudson; Hudson Bay; Monroe; New Bedford; The Schooner; inuit
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:5446

An Inuit man and two Inuit women pose in front of a sailcloth backdrop inside the deckhouse of the whaling schooner Era, probably at Cape Fullerton, Hudson Bay, February 1905. One of the women wears a skirt or dress made from trade cloth. Infrastructure Lifestyle Title supplied by cataloger. Information from original envelope identifies this as Photo # 13. 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.