Inuit group (Ippaktuq Tasseok--"Harry"--with women and children) in snow house, Hudson Bay, Canadian Arctic)

• Main Author: Comer, George (Creator)
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: Ownership Statement: Mystic Seaport 1897
• Subjects: Iglulik Eskimos; Inuit children; Inuit; Dwellings; Igloos; Arctic; Bedford; Hudson; Hudson Bay; New Bedford; Aivilik; eskimo*; inuit
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:5471

Harry [Ippaktuq Tasseok] is seated, with several Inuit women and children, inside a snow house at Hudson Bay, ca. 1897-1912. Lifestyle Infrastructure Title supplied by cataloger. 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. 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.