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At the Spring Sea Ice Camp

Synopsis
The series shows how life used to be among the Netsilik when they still lived apart and depended on the land and their own ingenuity to sustain life through the rigours of the Arctic year. The filming was done in the Pelly Bay region of the Canadian Arctic. In three 26-minute parts: 1) The Inuit families travel across the sea ice. Before night falls they build igloos. A boy practises throwing his spar at a figure he has made in the snow. A woman crimps the sole of a sealskin boot she is making; 2) The men hunt seal through the sea ice. A hunter strikes and takes his catch home to skin. A polar bear skin is pegged out to dry, and people nibble on raw fish from the cache; 3) A hunter, travelling alone with sled and dogs, snares and kills a squirrel. In camp, a sled is made from a polar bear skin. The family breaks camp, and moves ashore for the summer.
Series
Netsilik Eskimo, Series
Language
English
Country
United States
Medium
Video; Videocassette. VHS. col. 78 min.
Year of production
1967
Availability
Sale; 2000 sale: £60.00 (+VAT +p&p)
Subjects
Anthropology
Keywords
Canada; fishing; hunter-gatherers; Indians of North & South America; Inuit; Netsilik; social life and customs

Credits

Director
Asen Balikci; Quentin Brown
Producer
Kevin Smith; Quentin Brown
Contributor
Guy Mary-Rousselière

Production Company

Name

National Film Board of Canada

Email
customerservice@nfb.ca
Web
http://www.nfb.ca External site opens in new window
Phone
(514) 283 9000
Fax
(514) 283-7564
Address
Sales and Customer Service (D-10)
PO Box 6100
Station Centre-Ville
Montreal
QC H3C 3HS
Canada
Name

USA

Sponsor

Name

Ford Foundation

Name

USA

Distributor

Name

Royal Anthropological Institute

Contact
Susanne Hammacher (Film Officer)
Email
film@therai.org.uk
Web
https://www.therai.org.uk/film/film-sales External site opens in new window
Phone
020 7387 0455
Fax
020 7388 8817
Address
50 Fitzroy Street
London
W1T 5BT
Notes
The Institute sells more than 250 anthropology and ethnology titles on video and DVD, including some produced by students and staff of the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology. There is also a large library of internationally produced film and video productions from which items may be borrowed within the UK.

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