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ARKLE, Percy Wilkins

2002-0116

Film

1 of 1

1943 ?

Amateur film footage of aa aboriginal woman making a net, a woman sitting on an overturned canoe holding a bowl of fish, intertitle which reads, "These may be eaten at once, or smoked and sun dried as in the Labrador Indian scene", shot of fish fillets being smoked over an open fire, an elderly native man pouding grain, intertitle reads, "Introducing the industrious beaver. The government are now stocking the James Bay area", a man holding a beaver, a beaver on the grass being tied with string, intertitle reads, "Every Spring the ice rips away the banks", shot of a woman pointing at torn riverbank, intertitle reads, "Where the Moose River enters the bay the British and French fought for control of the rich fur trade", a man and a woman pointing at the bay and a group shot of a man and two women standing in front of a house. <2mn 19s

Silent

Open

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

With written permission of Copyright Owner / Avec la permission écrite du détenteur des droits d'auteur