| Summary: | A group of Inuit identified by the photographer as """"Kenepetic natives"""" are on the deck of the whaling schooner Era in Hudson Bay, Canadian Arctic, ca. 1897-1905. The men are wearing clothes identified as obtained from the Americans. Infrastructure Lifestyle Title supplied by cataloger. Information from original envelope identifies this as Photo # A 34. The Inuit identified as Kenepitic, Kenepetu or Kenepitu were from the Chesterfield Inlet region; the modern designation for the group is Qaernermiut. The schooner Era was built in 1847 at Boston, Massachusetts. She was a New London whaling vessel until her last voyage out of that port in 1892; her masters included James Monroe Buddington, John O. Spicer, and George Comer. She was wrecked off Miquelon Island, July 27, 1906. 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. """"Kenepetu"""" is one of several spellings he used to identify the Qaernermiut group.
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