Six Inuit women on board whaling schooner Era, Hudson Bay, Canada

• Main Author: Comer, George (Creator)
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: Ownership Statement: Mystic Seaport 1905
• Subjects: Inuit; Whaling ships; Schooners; Ships; Era (Schooner); Arctic; Bedford; Canada; Cape Fullerton; Hudson; Hudson Bay; Monroe; New Bedford; The Schooner; inuit
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:5554

Six Inuit women pose in front of a sailcloth backdrop inside the deckhouse of the whaling schooner Era, probably at Cape Fullerton, Hudson Bay, March 1905. Two of the women wear parkas decorated with trade beads, and two of them wear skirts or dresses made from trade cloth. Infrastructure Lifestyle...