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Cesar's Bark Canoe

Cesar's Bark Canoe Online

  • Genres: Documentary
  • Release Date: 01/01/1971
  • Duration : 57 minutes
  • Director: Bernard Gosselin
  • Production: ONF | NFB
  • Country: Canada
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Overview:

"This documentary depicts a canoe being built in the traditional manner. Cesar Newashish, a 67-year-old Attikamek of the Manawan Reserve North of Montréal, uses only birchbark, cedar splints, spruce roots, and gum. With a sure hand he works methodically to fashion a craft unsurpassed in function or beauty of design. Building a canoe solely from the materials that the forest provides may become a lost art, even among the Native Peoples whose traditional craft it is. The film is free of spoken commentary but text appears on the screen in Cree, French, and English." - Anthology Film Archives

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