Tuktu and the Big Kayak
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2003.5.25
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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 explores life in Pelly Bay, Canada through Tuktu, a Netsilik Eskimo boy. Shown is kayak-making from start to finish. Tuktu expresses his eagerness to use the bone drill and to cut wood but instead he is instructed to watch his father and the kayak buider to learn. 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