Inuit woman ice fishing, Cape Fullerton, Hudson Bay, Canada

• Main Authors: Comer, George (Creator), Lockwood, F.C. (Creator)
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: Ownership Statement: Mystic Seaport 1905
• Subjects: Ice fishing; Fishing; Inuit; Iglulik Eskimos; Arctic; Bedford; Brooklyn; Canada; Cape Fullerton; Hudson; Hudson Bay; Lockwood; New Bedford; Aivilik; eskimo*; inuit
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:5532

An Inuit woman fishes through a hole in the ice, Cape Fullerton, Hudson Bay, Canada, May 2, 1905. She is identified as a member of the Aivilik tribe. Lifestyle 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. Comer and the American whalers were closely associated with the Aivilik (or Aivillingmiut) group of Iglulik Inuit for many years. Slide prepared by F.C. Lockwood of Brooklyn, New York, from an original photograph by Captain George Comer. Slide was used by Comer to illustrate lectures about his Arctic and seafaring experiences.