Call Me Angakkuq: Captain George Comer and the Inuit of Qatiktalik

• Published in: Études Inuit Studies
• Main Author: Driscoll Engelstad, Bernadette
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Centre interuniversitaire d’études et de recherches autochtones (CIÉRA) 2018
• Subjects: Inuit social history; Arctic whaling; Hudson Bay; facial casts; Nunavut; Histoire sociale des Inuit; chasse à la baleine dans l’Arctique; baie d’Hudson; moulages faciaux; archeo; museo; Arctic; Baleine; Cape Fullerton; Hudson; la Baleine; Études/Inuit/Studies; inuit
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.7202/1064496ar; http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1064496ar

Through many years of dedicated fieldwork in the Canadian Arctic, Captain George Comer laid a solid foundation for the future of museum anthropology. With the support of Franz Boas, Captain Comer—a New England whaling master with little formal schooling—assembled an extensive collection of Inuit eth...