Shaman and other Inuit inside snow house, 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 1900
• Subjects: Whaling; Shamans; Rites and ceremonies; Inuit; Arctic; Bedford; Brooklyn; Canada; Hudson; Hudson Bay; Lockwood; New Bedford; inuit
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:5498

A group of Inuit are gathered inside a snow house on the west coast of Hudson Bay, Canada, ca. 1900-1905. The man sitting at center is identified as an angakok (shaman) bound in preparation for a ritual trance. Lifestyle Infrastructure Title supplied by cataloger. Taken by Captain George Comer (1858...