Jigging for Lake Trout
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From the Netsilik Eskimo series
Directed by Quentin Brown
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About Jigging for Lake Trout
color, 32 minutes
More signs of winter's end as more wildlife returns. The family makes
an excursion for fresh fish from a lake. They build a karmak and move
in the furs, cooking troughs, etc. The woman sets up her lamp,
spreads the furs and attends to the children. There are signs of
returning wildlife. The man moves out on the lake ice and chips a
hole for fishing. He baits his hook and lowers it jigging the line to
attract the fish. Crouched by the hole, he persists with his purpose
and takes some fish, as does his wife who has joined him. Both remain
at the hole through a severe blizzard.
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 Autumn River Camp
At the Winter Sea Ice Camp
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