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Tsimshian Indians of Skeena River British Columbia

Item number (ISN):

77858

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1925/1927

Item number (ISN):

77858

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:

1925/1927

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 life of the Tsimshian Indians in the beautiful Skeena Valley of northern British Columbia. Various scenes include salmon fishing, picking and preserving berries and plant food, women carrying supplies and infants in cradles on their backs, basket-making and spinning mountain goat wool. Also shown are tourist attractions such as totem poles, grave houses, and costumed dances. <17mn 19s>

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, Indians.~4. Films phorofraphed by Harlan I. Smith which are in the LAC film collection indlude:~[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 Columbie (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:

155523

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8210-0037

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Max. shrinkage:

0.4%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

433984

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2006-12-0004

Number of items:

1

Duration:

120:00

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

959605

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

8210-0037-DPX

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

11:53

Made from:

8210-0037

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

959606

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

77858.MOV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

11:53

Made from:

8210-0037

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

959607

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

77858.MP4

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

11:53

Made from:

8210-0037

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

981075

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2006-12-0006

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

9304-0012
9804-0014
9804-0007
9804-0008
9904-0118
7709-0906
8701-0040
8210-0038
8210-0037
8210-0023
7301-3771
2002-12-0036

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 2006-12-0004

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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