Stands for Inuit skin boats, Southampton Island, Hudson Bay, Canada

• Main Authors: Comer, George (Creator), American Museum of Natural History (Creator)
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: Ownership Statement: Mystic Seaport 1905
• Subjects: Inuit; Whaling; Arctic; Bedford; Canada; Hudson; Hudson Bay; New Bedford; Southampton Island; inuit
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:5481

View of stone piles used as stands for Inuit skin boats, to keep them dry and away from their dogs, taken on Southampton Island, Hudson Bay, Canada, June 1905. Infrastructure Livelihood 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. Slide prepared by the American Museum of Natural History from an original photograph by Captain George Comer. Slide was used by Comer to illustrate lectures about his Arctic and seafaring experiences.