| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 33 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound. |
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digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
| Series |
Netsilik Eskimo
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| Note |
Title from title frames. |
| Event |
Originally produced by Documentary Educational Resources in 1967. |
| Summary |
A seal is seen nosing from a snow-melt pool. The hunter sits at the door of his tent shaping a new bone tip for his harpoon. The woman is in the tent sewing a fur mitten. They eat a little frozen fish; then the hunter finishes his harpoon and sets out after seal. After a long imitative stalk, the hunter moves too soon, alerting the seal, and his harpoon misses. In camp the woman skins a flipper and the boy plays. The hunter prepares for a night vigil at the breathing hole of the seal. Next morning the woman scrapes a seal skin, the boy plays on shore, and the hunter still waits for the seal. When again he fails, he turns to egg collecting on the cliff where the gulls nest. Finally the family packs its belongings on a bear skin and shifts along the coast to another area. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Eskimos.
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Sex role.
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Daily life.
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Sewing.
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Hunting.
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Inuit.
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Group identity.
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Spring (Season)
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| Added Author |
Brown, Quentin, producer, film director.
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Kanopy (Firm)
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| Music No. |
1095984 Kanopy |
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