| Description |
1 online resource (65 min.) |
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Netsilik Eskimo |
| Summary |
Part 1: Now it is July - summer. The run-off is in full spate and open water shows offshore. Ice cakes melt on the shingle. On the bay are ducks. It is time to build a kayak, a task shared by two men. They gather materials: valuable scraps of wood, bone, seal skins, and sinews. Now there is much cutting, fitting, joining, and binding. The woman helps by cutting additional thongs, scraping skins, providing food. She must also amuse the child who seems left out by the single-minded work of the men. Then the work breaks and a man harpoons a fish in a tide pool; all share the pleasure of fresh food |
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Part 2: As the kayak takes shape there are more ribs to be split and shaped to fit, more soaking, bending, and binding, more skins to soak and scrape and soak again before stretching them tightly on the frame and sewing them in place. Now the outer rim is put in position and, while the ice floats in the bay, the men launch and test their new kayak with evident pleasure in its able performance |
| Notes |
Title from resource description page (viewed Mar. 12, 2014) |
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This edition in English |
| Subject |
Eskimos -- Northwest Territories -- Social life and customs
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Kayaks -- Design and construction
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Netsilik Inuit -- Social life and customs
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Eskimos -- Social life and customs
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Kayaks -- Design and construction
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Netsilik Inuit -- Social life and customs
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Northwest Territories
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| Genre/Form |
documentary film.
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Documentary films
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Nonfiction films
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Documentary films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Documentaires.
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Films autres que de fiction.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Mary-Rousselière, Guy, contributor
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Balikci, Asen, 1929-2019, contributor
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Brown, Quentin, film director, film producer, director, producer.
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Documentary Educational Resources (Firm), production company.
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