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The Making of a Birch Bark Canoe

Item number (ISN):

208948

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1920/1929

Item number (ISN):

208948

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

KIRKLAND, Wallace

Accession:

1977-0276

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1920/1929

Production company:

Wallace W. Kirkland (Photography)

Production credit:

photography, Wallace W. Kirkland

Description:

Out of the materials of the forest, and with no other tools but an axe and a knife, an Ojibway couple, John Push-ka-Gan and his wife, and family of ten, fashion a birch bark canoe at a location on the Seine River, forty miles from Fort Frances, Ontario. Sequences show: the felling of white cedar to make the canoe ribs and; the removal of the birch bark; processing the bark; fashioning the frame of the canoe; sheeting the frame with the pliable bark; caulking the seams with spruce gum; and testing the canoe. <19mn 4s>

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Notes:

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1. Actuality footage over 50 years - copyright expired.~2. Kirkland's manuscript indicates that John Push-ka-Gan's wife was the daughter of Jack Pot, an expert canoe-maker, of the Seine River Indians.~3. Kirkland paddled his commissioned canoe down the Seine River to Fort Frances, where it was crated and sent to Chicago.~4. See also ISN 208949 for similar footage, including out-takes.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

31753

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8201-0010

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

212497

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7712-0022

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

7712-0023

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

212577

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7712-0023

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

432260

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2006-10-0086

Number of items:

1

Duration:

120:00

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

948496

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

7712-0023-DPX

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

19:04

Made from:

7712-0023

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

948497

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

208948.MOV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

19:04

Made from:

7712-0023

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

948498

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

208948.MP4

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

19:04

Made from:

7712-0023

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

980996

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2006-10-0047

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

9505-0203
8613-5336
8108-0348
9406-0241
9103-0012
9103-0013
9208-0012
8501-0018
7712-0022
7505-0375

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8201-0010
V1 2006-10-0086

Restrictions on consultation:

Open

Donor restrictions:

The material may not be used in commercials or in such a way as to embarrass the context of the material or the creator/depositor personally.

Copyright status:

Copyright expired.

Reproduction access:

with written pemission of copyright owner : in accordance with deposit agreement - see notes

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