Inuit man (Ippaktuq Tasseok), Cape Fullerton, Hudson Bay, Canadian Arctic, February 1904

glass negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
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Comer, George (Capt.)
Canada, Hudson Bay; Canada, Nunavut, Cape Fullerton
1904-02
glass
5 x 4 in.

Glass negative by Capt. George Comer, taken at Cape Fullerton, Hudson Bay, February 1904. Depicts "Harry" [Ippaktuq Tasseok], seated in front of sail cloth backdrop in deck house onboard whaling schooner ERA. Harry was the leader of a group of Inuit known as the Aivilik or Aivilingmiut. Information from original envelope identifies this as Photo 145. Number 39 is etched into emulsion on lower part of plate.

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1963.1767.169