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Tuktu and his Eskimo Dogs
196714 min 10 secFilm: Documentary, Children's film
Direction: Laurence Hyde
Production: David Bairstow
Script: Laurence Hyde
How dogs are often used by the Inuit, both in winter and summer. In this film we see puppies, sled dogs, and dogs being used as pack animals. Eskimo dogs are also used for hunting purposes, and we see how they can sniff out the seal blowholes when deep snow covers the winter sea ice.
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Subject categories
- Fishing and Hunting Industries > Arctic HuntingHuntingSeal and Walrus Hunt
- Indigenous Peoples in Canada (Inuit) > ChildrenDogs
- Children and Youth > Children's StoriesIndigenous Youth
- Animals > Indigenous ConcernsWorking Animals
Credits
- director
- Laurence Hyde
- script
- Laurence Hyde
- editing
- Laurence Hyde
- producer
- David Bairstow
- sound editing
- Marguerite Payette
- music
- Robert Fleming
- narrator
- Tommy Tweed