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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: Video
Language:English
Published: Watertown, Mass. : Documentary Educational Resources, 2008.
Series:Ethnographic video online.
Subjects:
Umiaks > Design and construction.
Skin boats > Design and construction.
Boatbuilding > Québec (Province) > Inukjuak.
Inuit > Boats > Québec (Province) > Inukjuak > Design and construction.
Inuit > Québec (Province) > Inukjuak > Social life and customs.
Bateaux > Conception et construction > Québec (Province) > Inukjuak.
Inuits > Québec (Province) > Inukjuak > Mœurs et coutumes.
Boatbuilding
Inuit > Social life and customs
Québec > Inukjuak
Documentary.
Encoded moving images.
documentary film.
Documentary films
Ethnographic films
Nonfiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Ethnographic films.
Documentaires.
Films autres que de fiction.
Films ethnographiques.
Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
Description
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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (31 min.)
Production Credits:Director, Jobie Weetaluktuk ; producer, Katarina Soukup.