Seated Inuit man, Melichi [Meliki], Hudson Bay, Canadian Arctic, 1904

glass negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
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Comer, George (Capt.)
Canada, Hudson Bay; Canada, Nunavut, Cape Fullerton
1904-01-01
glass
5 x 4 in.

Glass negative by Capt. George Comer, taken in Hudson Bay, ca. 1904. Depicts a seated Inuit man posed in front of a sail cloth backdrop. Identified by Comer as Melichi [Meliki], who died on Southampton Island during the winter of 1909-1910. Photo probably taken onboard the whaling schooner ERA at Cape Fullerton in January of 1904. Information from original envelope identifies this as Photo 31, # 78. Lantern slide 1966.339.19 was made from this negative.


1963.1767.42

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