Inuit women and children on board vessel (A.T. Gifford), Canadian Arctic

• Main Author: Comer, George (Creator)
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: Ownership Statement: Mystic Seaport 1907
• Subjects: Whaling ships; Schooners; Ships; Inuit children; Inuit; A.T. Gifford (Schooner); Arctic; Bedford; New Bedford; inuit
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:5545

A group of Inuit women and children pose on the afterdeck of a vessel, probably the whaling schooner A.T. Gifford, Canadian Arctic, ca. 1907-1912. The women wear dresses made from trade cloth obtained from whalers, and the children are dressed in clothes also brought north by the Americans. Infrastructure 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.