Tuktu and the Trials of Strength
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2003.5.34
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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: 1967
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 are Inuit hunters demonstrating and testing their strength in boxing, tug-of-war, and other strenuous activities. Also included is the drum dance, a demonstration of Inuit poetry and rhythm. 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