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Bella Coola Indians of British Columbia

Item number (ISN):

183081

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1923/1924

Item number (ISN):

183081

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA / OFFICE NATIONAL DU FILM DU CANADA: NON NFB FILMS

Accession:

1982-0220

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1923/1924

Production company:

National Museum of Canada, Department of Mines

Production credit:

photography, Harlan I. Smith

Distributor name:

National Museum of Canada

Description:

Documentary film on the Bella Coola Indians of British Columbia. The beautiful fjords, mountains, glaciers and cataracts of the Bella Coola region are the setting for this film. Indians are shown drying salmon, picking berries, making baskets, back-packing, carving and navigating a dug-out cedar canoe. A medicine man is seen with his rattle. Other exceptional footage includes the masked dance, mountain goat and black bear. <11mn>

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Notes:

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1. Crown copyright over 50 years : copyright expired.~2. Harlan Ingersoll Smith (1872-1940) joined the Geological Survey of Canada as head of the Archaeology Division (now part of the Canadian Museum of Civilization) in 1911.~3. Smith was also a pioneering ethnographic filmmaker documenting Plains, Plateau and Northwest Coast Aboriginal people. ~4. Films photographed by Harlan I. Smith which are in the LAC film collection include:~[Flood at Bella Coola] (ISN 320980).~Tsimshian Indians of Skeena River British Columbia (ISN 77858).~Shuswap Indians of British Columbia (ISN 283954).~Shuswap Indians of British Columbia (ISN 100955).~Nootka Indians of British Columbia (ISN 100976).~Coast Salish Indians of British Columbia (ISN 182473).~Bella Coola Indians of British Columbia (ISN 183081).~Kootenay Indians of British Columbia (ISN 194562).~Carrier Indians of British Columbia (ISN 284401).~Cheenama the Trailmaker: An Indian Idyll of Old Ontario (ISN 219308).~Blackfoot of Alberta (ISN 270799).~Stoney Indians of Alberta (ISN 290759).~Bella Coola Valley and Mackenzie park (ISN 318885).~[Mackenzie Park] (ISN 327811).~In Canadian Fjords (ISN 346964).

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Vault ISN:

174829

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8210-0038

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

PRT.ELEM
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Conditions of access:

Open

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD579

Copyright status:

Copyright expired

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of responsible agencies : no donor restrictions

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