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

Metadata

Handle

http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:5545

Persons

Title

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

Supplied	yes

Origin Information

Date Created	1907 to 1912

Parent Item

Mystic Seaport Museum

Connecticut History Illustrated

Resource Type

Still image

Digital Origin

reformatted digital

Description

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.

Genre

Subject

A.T. Gifford (Schooner)

Geographic Subject

East Haddam (Conn.)

Extent

Source extent: 1 photograph : glassplate negative ; 4 x 5 in.

Held By

Mystic Seaport Museum

Use and Reproduction

Reproduction and copyright information regarding this image is available from The Photography Department, Mystic Seaport, Mystic.

Note

Note Type	source note
Note	Comer Collection

Note Type	local
Note	theme: Infrastructure

Note Type	local
Note	theme: Livelihood

Note	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.

Local Identifier

Accession number: 1963.1767.217

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

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