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Umiaq skin boat

Umiaq Skin Boat is a beautiful and poetic 30-minute film about a group of Inuit elders in Inukjuak, Quebec who decide one summer to build the first traditional seal skin boat their community has seen in over 50 years. Once an essential vessel for travel and for hunting large prey like bowhead whales...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weetaluktuk, Jobie
Other Authors: Soukup, Katarina
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Watertown, Mass. Documentary Educational Resources 2008, 2008
Series:Ethnographic video online, volume 1
Subjects:
Boatbuilding / Québec (province) / Inukjuak
Inuit / Boats / Québec (province) / Inukjuak / Design And Construction
Inuit / Québec (province) / Inukjuak / Social Life And Customs
Skin Boats / Design And Construction
Umiaks / Design And Construction
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Collection: Ethnographic Video Online Vol. 1 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:Umiaq Skin Boat is a beautiful and poetic 30-minute film about a group of Inuit elders in Inukjuak, Quebec who decide one summer to build the first traditional seal skin boat their community has seen in over 50 years. Once an essential vessel for travel and for hunting large prey like bowhead whales, the umiaq has been replaced in modern times by canoes powered with out-board motors
Item Description:Previously released on DVD.. - Title from resource description page (viewed Dec. 23, 2010). - Recorded in Inukjuak, Quebec
Physical Description:1 online resource (31 min.)

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