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Coast Salish Indians of British Columbia

Item number (ISN):

182473

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1928

Item number (ISN):

182473

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CANADA. NATIONAL MUSEUMS OF CANADA / MUSÉES NATIONAUX DU CANADA

Accession:

1971-0053

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1928

Production company:

National Museum of Canada

Production credit:

photography, Harlan I. Smith

Description:

Documentary film on the life of the Coast Salish Indians of British Columbia. Sequences include: carving the cedar with ancient tools; canoeing in a cedar dugout; picking berries; spinning mountain goat wool and weaving it for baskets; weaving cedar bark for making hats; sewing rushes into mats; and basket making. Shoals of salmon and the game animals - deer, goat, beaver - upon which these Indians depended for food are also shown. Drumming, rattling, and dancing in the old way, wearing grotesque masks, complete the story. <6mn 26s>

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Notes:

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1. Crown copyright over 50 years : copyright expired.~2. Harlan Ingersoll Smith (1982-1940) 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).

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

125721

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8007-0038

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

174633

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7301-3745

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Max. shrinkage:

1.3%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

174634

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7301-3746

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

174635

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7301-3747

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

174636

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7301-3748

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

174637

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7807-0608

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

7301-3748

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

174638

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7807-0609

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

7301-3748

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

176042

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 9110-0019

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

377317

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2002-11-0001

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

7301-3745

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

378276

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2002-12-0036

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

2002-11-0001

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

380535

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2003-03-0146

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

2002-11-0001

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

433984

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2006-12-0004

Number of items:

1

Duration:

120:00

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

946365

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

7301-3745-DPX

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

9:23

Made from:

7301-3745

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

946366

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

182473.MOV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

9:23

Made from:

7301-3745

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

946367

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

182473.MP4

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

9:23

Made from:

7301-3745

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
Ordering and viewing options

Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8007-0038
V1 9110-0019
V1 2006-12-0004

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Copyright status:

Copyright expired.

Reproduction access:

To be Determined / À déterminer

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