Tuktu and His Eskimo Dogs
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2003.5.23
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content: Matanuska-Susitna School District educational film collection
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content: 1 Film reel (color sound; 504 feet, 16mm)
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content: 1969
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 directed by Laurence Hyde explores life in Pelly Bay, Canada through Tuktu, a Netsilik Eskimo boy. Shown various ways in which dogs are important to Eskimo life including being used as pack animals, pulling sleds and for hunting. Dogs are filmed locating seal blowholes when snow covers the winter sea ice.  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