Eskimo Seal Hunting
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1993.16.2
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 sound; 733 feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1940
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 shot around the hunting territory of Alukseevee Island, . Narration establishes the film as a document of the Eskimo way of life from winter to May, told as Idlouk, an Eskimo, would have told the story. Footage includes: dancing, dog sled and hitching dogs on separate traces, young girl cutting blocks of snow to put in bucket, boys playing with model boats in a pond, a family group removing snow from open water to put in seal nets, catching seals, butchering seals, making rock/meat caches, family packing belongings into boat which is on a sled in prepartion of moving, girl eating biscuits, snow goose, murres nested in cliffs, putting seal skin boots on dog's paws, and blooming spring flowers. Film ends with seal hunt where the father uses a telescope to locate the seals and then, using a screen, stalks and kills them.