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The Loon's Necklace
195011 min 6 secFilm: Fiction, Children's film
Direction: Radford Crawley
Script: Douglas Leechman
Produced by Crawley Films Ltd. for Imperial Oil Ltd.
This title is an acquisition.
A Tsimshian legend portrayed by actors wearing ceremonial masks carved by the Tsimshian of the British Columbia coast. The story explains the white band around the black neck of the loon. Kelora, the hero, was once a proud medicine man, but was neglected in his feeble old age and blindness. His totem, the loon, remains faithful to him and gives him back his sight. In return Kelora places his necklace of magic shells around the neck of the bird, where it can still be seen today.
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Subject categories
- Literature and Language - Canada > Children's MaterialsIndigenous Traditional Stories
- Literature and Language > Children's StoriesIndigenous Traditional Stories
- Indigenous Peoples in Canada (First Nations and Métis) > Legends and LiteratureOral Culture
Credits
- director
- Radford Crawley
- script
- Douglas Leechman
- photography
- Grant Crabtree
- editing
- Judith Crawley
- sound
- Rod Sparks
- narrator
- George Gorman
- artist
- Graham Crabtree