Tuktu and the Magic Bow
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2003.5.30
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content: Matanuska-Susitna School District educational film collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (color sound; 504 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1968
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Film reels
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content: Edited film explores life in Pelly Bay, Canada through Tuktu, a Netsilik Eskimo boy. Shown is a bow being made and how the Eskimos practise their shooting skill by aiming arrows at snow men and snow bears. Film was edited from a project filmed from 1963-1965 under the ethnographic direction of Dr. Asen Balikci, University of Montréal, assisted by Guy Mary-Rousseliere, O.M.I., both anthropologists of wide Arctic experience. Quentin Brown was producer-director, and Kevin Smith was the executive producer for the series. 

Legacy Keywords: North America ; Canada ; National Film Board of Canada