At the Autumn River Camp
From the Netsilik Eskimo series
Directed by Quentin Brown
At the Autumn River Camp Part 2
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About At the Autumn River Camp
Part 1, color, 26 minutes - click
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It is late autumn and the Eskimos travel through soft snow and build
karmaks, shelters with snow walls and a roof of skins, in the river
valley. The geese are gone but some musk-ox are seen. The man makes
a toy sleigh from the jawbones of a caribou and hitches it to a puppy.
Next day the women gather stocks of moss for the lamp and the fire.
The men fish through the ice with spears. The woman cooks fish while
the men cache the surplus. Then the family eats in the karmak.
Part 2, color, 33 minutes - click
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The men build an igloo and the household goods are moved in. They
begin the complicated task of making a sleigh, using the skins from
the tent, frozen fish, caribou antlers and sealskin thong. The woman
works at a parka, using more caribou skin, and the children play. Now
the sled is ready to load and soon the family is heading downriver to
the coast.
About the Netsilik Eskimo series
These films reveal the live reality of traditional Eskimo life before
the European acculturation. The Netsilik Eskimos of the Pelly Bay
region in the Canadian Arctic had long lived apart from other people
and had depended entirely on the land and their own ingenuity to
sustain life through the rigors of the Arctic year. The filming was
done during the summers of 1963 and 1964 and in the late winter of
1965 under the ethnographic direction of Dr. Asen Balikci of the
University of Montréal, assisted by Guy Mary-Rousseliere,
O.M.I., both anthropologists of wide Arctic experience. Quentin Brown
was Producer-Director, and Kevin Smith the Executive Producer for the
series.
other films in the Netsilik Eskimo series:
At the Caribou Crossing Place
At the Winter Sea Ice Camp
Jigging for Lake Trout
At the Spring Sea Ice Camp
Group Hunting on the Spring Ice
Stalking Seal on the Spring Ice
Building a Kayak
Fishing at the Stone Weir
Related Films:
Alaskan Eskimo series
Through These Eyes