Eskimo Arts and Crafts
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1987.9.19
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Boulton, Laura, 1899-1980
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content: Laura Boulton films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (21 minutes, color sound; 757 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1943
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film produced for the National Film Board of Canada depicting the arts and crafts of eastern Canadian Eskimos. Featured are scenic shots of shoreline, kayak building, leather scraping, boot making, ivory carving, net making, finger weaving, instrument making, and music, dance, and costume. Robert Flaherty is credited as consultant.

Legacy Keywords: Landscape scenic shots of shoreline ; Costume traditional ; Music traditional ; Vessels kayak ; Manufacture kayak building ; Toys toy kayak ; Knife "ulu" woman's knife ; Manufacture boot making "mukruk" ; Processing leather tooling leather "scraping" ; Manufacture ivory carving ; Carving ivory carving walrus tusks ; Manufacture net making ; Manufacture finger woven bands ; Processing preparation of animal skin ; Manufacture manufacture of fishing spears ; Smoking pipe smoking ; Manufacture manufacture of drums ; Games wrestling ; Dance traditional ; Settlement rural