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Nunavut elders. Midwife and mentor /

Until she was forty years old, Bessie Ashevak lived in igloos and tents, cooked with qulliqs, sewed her family's skin clothing and raised her children. Bessie was a midwife and routinely delivered babies in tents, igloos, on boats - wherever the family happened to be when the time came. Bessies...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Tucktoo, Linda (Director)
Format: Video
Language:Inuktitut
Language Notes:In Inuktitut with English subtitles.
Published: Canada : Inuit Communications Systems, 2005.
Series:Academic Video Online
Subjects:
Inuit > Nunavut.
Older Inuit.
Inuit > Social life and customs.
Childbirth > Nunavut.
Midwives > Nunavut.
Nunavut.
Older Eskimos.
Personnes âgées inuites.
Inuits > Mœurs et coutumes.
Sages-femmes > Nunavut.
Inuits > Nunavut.
Older Eskimos
Childbirth
Inuit
Inuit > Social life and customs
Midwives
Older Inuit
Nunavut
documentary film.
Documentary films
Ethnographic films
Ethnographic films.
Documentary films.
Films ethnographiques.
Documentaires.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:Until she was forty years old, Bessie Ashevak lived in igloos and tents, cooked with qulliqs, sewed her family's skin clothing and raised her children. Bessie was a midwife and routinely delivered babies in tents, igloos, on boats - wherever the family happened to be when the time came. Bessies' grand-niece, Violet, a high-school student who has just had her first baby, seeks advice on raising her new infant.
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed July 20, 2017).
Physical Description:1 online resource (24 min.)
Playing Time:00:23:56