Stalking Seal on the Spring Ice

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 2 parts: 1 (24 min): The Intuit are camped on the shore of Pelly Bay in May and June. A hunter catches a seal and drags it back to camp, where he and his wife cut it up. There is a use for everything - blubber, hide, fur, even the intestines; 2 (33 min): A hunter sits at the door of his tent shaping a new bone tip for his harpoon. A woman sews a fur mitten. Frozen fish is eaten. After a long imitative stalk the hunter moves too soon and his harpoon misses his catch. He prepares for a night vigil at the seal’s breathing hole. He fails again and turns to egg collecting on the cliff.*
Series: Netsilik Eskimo, Series
Language: English
Country: United States
Medium: Film; Video; 16mm. sd. col. 33 min. (part 2 only) Videocassette. VHS. col. 58 min.
Technical information: Black-and-white / Sound
Year of production: 1967
Availability: Hire (film - RAI Film & Video Library)
Sale (video); 1995 hire: £22.00 (+VAT +p&p) part 2 only 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)
Subjects: Anthropology
Keywords: Canada; hunter-gatherers; Inuit; Netsilik; seal hunting; social life and customs

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