Inuit group traveling with dogs and goods, Hudson Bay area, Canadian Arctic

Metadata

Handle

http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:5428

Persons

Title

Inuit group traveling with dogs and goods, Hudson Bay area, Canadian Arctic

Supplied	yes

Origin Information

Date Created	1897 to 1912

Parent Item

Mystic Seaport Museum

Connecticut History Illustrated

Resource Type

Still image

Digital Origin

reformatted digital

Description

A group of Inuit is traveling with dogs and goods, Hudson Bay area, ca. 1897-1912. One of the group appears to be carrying a child on his back.

Genre

Subject

Geographic Subject

Extent

Source extent: 1 photograph : glass 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: Lifestyle

Note

Title supplied by cataloger. Information from original envelope identifies this as Photo #5. 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: 1963.1767.84

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Inuit group traveling with dogs and goods, Hudson Bay area, Canadian Arctic

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