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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221703-06
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1941
Country: USA
Location: ALASKA,Nunivak
TC Begins: 15:09:23
TC Ends: 15:19:48
Duration: 00:10:25
Main title missing LS Nunivak Island off Alaska coast line. MS boats beached. Village w/ houses dug into hillside. 15:09:50 Woman starting fire & lighting seal oil lamp. CUs. Five children sleeping on platform. Father sleeping under tarp (?). Mother begins cutting fish. 15:10:42 Father puts on parka, goes outside & climbs to roof to look at weather. Children put grass into boots to keep feet dry & warm. 15:12:00 Family eating around table w/ grandparents, eating fish & seal oil. 15:12:38 Mother & girl get fresh water from tundra pool; return to house. 15:13:30 Father & son return in seal skin kayak after setting fishing nets. Pick up a piece o driftwood, then visit summer dwelling. 15:14:47 Women stitching w/ daughters to repair parkas. 15:15:40 Man carving ivory walrus tusk. 15:15:57 Mother & daughter cleaning fish on ground. Fish hung to dry on racks to preserve. 15:16:38 Grandmother trades basket for needles at trader’s store. Other canned goods, woolen blankets & candy, etc. shown. 15:17:20 Kids playing games & practice w/ bows and arrows. 15:18:04 Father in kayak spears bird. 15:18:38 Family in house around cook stove. 15:18:51 Dancing in gym to drums. Crowds laughing. 15:19:27 Scenic view of beach & sea. The End. 1940s Educational Film; Geography; Anthropology; Native American Indians; Inuit; Eskimoes; Dances; Ethnic; NOTE: One continuous minute sold at per reel rate.