Skin and cloth tents, summer camp, Hudson Bay, Canada
View of tents in the Hudson Bay area of the Canadian Arctic, ca. 1897-1912. Structures are identified as skin tents and also cloth tents brought north by the Americans, comprising "summer camps, where comfort is taken." Infrastructure Lifestyle Title supplied by cataloger. Information from...
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Ownership Statement: Mystic Seaport
1897
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:5511 |
| Summary: | View of tents in the Hudson Bay area of the Canadian Arctic, ca. 1897-1912. Structures are identified as skin tents and also cloth tents brought north by the Americans, comprising "summer camps, where comfort is taken." Infrastructure Lifestyle Title supplied by cataloger. Information from original envelope identifies this as Photo # 88. Such tents provided shelter for the Inuit during summer. 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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