| Summary: | An Aivilik Inuit man identified as """"Harry"""" [Ippaktuq Tasseok], is seated in front of sail cloth backdrop in the deckhouse of the whaling schooner Era, February 18, 1904. Lifestyle Title supplied by cataloger. Information from original envelope identifies this as Photo 132, # 38. Number 38 is etched into the emulsion on lower part of plate. Harry is referred to in the North as Comer's [Captain George Comer] """"mate,"""" and was the leader of a group of Iglulik Inuit known as the Aivilik or Aivillingmiut. These Inuit of the west coast region of Hudson Bay were closely associated with Comer and the American whalers for many years. 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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