Inuit boy looking through marine glasses on whaling schooner Era, Hudson Bay, Canadian Arctic

• Main Author: Comer, George (Creator)
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: Ownership Statement: Mystic Seaport 1897
• Subjects: Inuit children; Inuit; Children; Whaling ships; Schooners; Sailing ships; Ships; Era (Schooner); Arctic; Bedford; Hudson; Hudson Bay; Monroe; New Bedford; The Schooner; inuit
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:5535

A young Inuit boy is looking through marine glasses on board the whaling schooner Era at Hudson Bay, ca. 1897-1905. The boy is identified as ""Pum e u lars [Pameolik].4 years old, part white."" The vessel's sails and rigging are partially visible. Infrastructure Lifestyle Title supplied by cataloger. Information from original envelope identifies this as Photo 122. 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, including the Era. Comer participated in voyages involved in polar expeditions and was noted for his studies of Arctic peoples and their environment.