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
- 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)
- 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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