Netsilik Eskimo Series, III: At the Spring Sea Ice Camp

Synopsis

Two Eskimo families travel across the wide sea ice. Before night falls they build small igloos and we see the construction in detail. The next day a polar bear is seen basking in the warming sun. A woman lights her seal oil lamp, carefully forming the wick from moss. The man repairs his snow goggles. Another man arrives dragging a polar bear skin. The boy has made a bear-shaped figure from snow and practices throwing his spear. Then he tries his bow. Now, with her teeth, the woman crimps the sole of a sealskin boot she is making. The men are hunting seal through the sea-ice in the bleak windy weather. The wind disturbs the "tell-tales," made of eider down or a hair loop on a bone, that signal when a seal rises to breathe. A hunter strikes, kills and drags his catch up and away. At the igloo the woman scrapes at a polar bear skin and a man repairs a sled. In the warming weather the igloo is topped with furs and a snow shelter is built to hide the sled from the sun.

Main Cast

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Quentin Brown
Crew	Cinematography	Richard Bergman
Editing	Co-Editor	Elvin Carini Jack Hirschfeld
Production	Executive Producer	Kevin Smith
Sound	Sound	Don Wellington Jacques Drouin Ken Page Malca Gillson
Department	Role	Name

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