Inuit children on board whaling schooner Era, 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: Whaling; Iglulik Eskimos; Inuit children; Children; Arctic; Bedford; Brooklyn; Canada; Cape Fullerton; Chesterfield Inlet; Hudson; Hudson Bay; Lockwood; Monroe; New Bedford; The Schooner; Aivilik; eskimo*; inuit
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:5533

Seven Inuit children of the Aivilik and Qaernermiut tribes pose on board the whaling schooner Era at Cape Fullerton in Hudson Bay, Canada, March 8, 1905. Lifestyle Livelihood Title supplied by cataloger. The Aivilik (or Aivillingmiut) are a group of Iglulik Inuit. These Inuit of the west coast region of Hudson Bay were closely associated with Captain George Comer and the American whalers for many years. The Qaernermiut (sometimes referred to as Kenepetu, Kenepitu or Kenepitic) live in the Chesterfield Inlet area. 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. 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.