Collection search - The Making of a Birch Bark Canoe : [out-takes]
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Record information – Brief The Making of a Birch Bark Canoe : [out-takes]
Hierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Date:1920/1929Item number (ISN):208949Type of material:Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:KIRKLAND, WallaceAccession:1977-0276Media:FilmPart:1 of 1Production date:1920/1929Production company:Wallace W. Kirkland (photography)Production credit:For production credits, see ISN 208948Description:Out-takes of a documentary on John Push-ka-Gan and his wife and family of ten, Ojibway, making a birch bark canoe. Scenes include: two First Nations men felling trees; collecting birch bark; shaving and shaping ribs; shaping ribs with part of legs (knees mostly); shaping the frame; placing it in water; scraping and cleaning birch bark; First Nations girl in background; placing bark under frame; placing stones to keep them in place; inserting pegs to hold the frame together; three women; woman inserting spruce roots to tie bark to frame; inserting spigots; collecting roots; boiling roots; wife stripping fibers out of roots; removing rocks and frame; leveling bark to top of frame; women inserting stitches into bark; heating spruce gum (resin) to seal joints; tarred bottom of canoe and inserting stripping to cover birch bark using one hand spoke shave; heating spruce gum to mold it; solo test drive; and women sewing blanket stitch and running stitch. <19mn 39s>Language:SilentNotes:Detailed holdings information: -
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