NFB Collection
Building a Kayak: Part 2
196732 min 46 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Quentin Brown
Production: Quentin BrownKevin Smith
Produced through grants from the National Science Foundation and the Ford Foundation of the United States, by Education Development Center, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, in association with the National Film Board of Canada.
Filmed over a period of three years, from summer 1963 to the late winter of 1965, and released in 1967, the Netsilik series is about the traditional lifestyle of Netsilingmiut living in the area around Kugaaruk.
In this episode, work on the kayak continues. More skins are soaked; ribs are split and shaped. Finally, the kayak is ready and the men take it out on the water for a test.
Please note that this is an archival film that makes use of the word “Eskimo,” an outdated and offensive term. While the origin of the word is a matter of some contention, it is no longer used in Canada. The term was formally rejected by the Inuit Circumpolar Council in 1980 and has subsequently not been in use at the NFB for decades. This film is therefore a time-capsule of a bygone era, presented in its original version. The NFB apologizes for the offence caused.
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Subject categories
- Crafts > BoatbuildingInuit Crafts
- Indigenous Peoples in Canada (Inuit) > CraftsNetsilikNorthwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon
Credits
- director
- Quentin Brown
- producer
- Quentin Brown
- executive producer
- Kevin Smith
- consultant
- Asen Balikci
- Guy Mary-Rousselière
- camera
- Richard Bergman
- Ken Campbell
- Ken Post
- Douglas Wilkinson
- Robert Young
- sound
- Jacques Drouin
- editing
- Elvin Carini
- Michel Chalifour
- William Gaddis
- Jack Hirschfield
- Bill Tannebring
- sound editing
- Malca Gillson
- Ken Page
- Don Wellington
- re-recording
- Ron Alexander