Footage of Arctic and World Fairs
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1993.16.6
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Irwin, David, 1910-1970
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content: David Irwin films of the Canadian Arctic
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (black-and-white color silent; 2000 feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1935-1960
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
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content: Footage shot in the Canadian Arctic during Irwin's 1934-1935 dog sled trek includes: eating blubber; using an ice/water dip to get a drink of water; interior igloo scenes (nursing and sewing); fishing; making an ice cache; spearing fish and making a fish cache; polar bears; shooting birds; skinning seal; taking a boat to sea on dog sled; woman singing, drumming, and dancing; girl with baby; grave of Johan Svendsen; sealing with dogs and boat; using an ulu; ivory carvings; ship trapped in ice; stampeding musk oxen herd; two boats, the Polar Bear and the Shumagen; Gjoa Haven, King Williams Land; Haktuk and son; Irwin with Eskimos; scenes of dog sledding including feeding and dog fights; woman in elaborately embroidered parka; Eskimo smoking pipe; hunting seals with a screen; moose; making igloo; reindeer race; box drummer with other drummers and dancers; sea lions; mountain goats; and sod houses. Documented is a reindeer round-up in the early to mid thirties probably near Mackenzie River, Canada, with dancing using a box drum. Hunting and butchering of seals in the central Canadian arctic was filmed. Footage taken possibly at either the New York World's Fair or the World's Fair in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the early to mid sixties documents "Dave Irwin's Eskimo Village," a show Irwin toured to various fairs which included Eskimos from the Canadian Arctic.