Whaleboats towing bowhead whale, west coast of Hudson Bay, Canada

• Main Authors: Comer, George (Creator), Lockwood, F.C. (Creator)
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: Ownership Statement: Mystic Seaport 1897
• Subjects: Whaling; Whales; Whalers (Persons); Whaleboats; Boats and boating; Inuit; Arctic; Bedford; Brooklyn; Canada; Hudson; Hudson Bay; Lockwood; New Bedford; bowhead whale; inuit
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:5487

View of two whaleboats under sail towing a harpooned bowhead whale, west coast of Hudson Bay, Canada. Inuit crew members are among those on board the boats. Infrastructure Livelihood Title supplied by cataloger. Taken by Captain George Comer (1858-1937), a sealer and whaling captain from East Haddam...