Angotee: Story of an Eskimo Boy
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1993.16.1
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: 1 Film reel (30 minutes, color sound; 1062 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1953
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 by National Film Board of Canada, chronicles the life of Angotee (who is from near Baffin Island) from birth to age 20, when his own child is born. Film shows scenes of his mother, father, and grandmother; Angotee as a baby; his first caribou skin clothes; playing with sled dogs; his sisters learning to chew seal skin for boots and mitts; death of his mother; killing his first seal at age 12; his marriage in the Catholic Church at age 18; and Angotee with his wife and son leaving the family igloo at age 20.