César's Bark Canoe


This documentary shows how a canoe is built the old way. César Newashish, a 67-year-old Atikamekw of the Manawan Reserve north of Montreal, uses only birchbark, cedar splints, spruce roots and gum. Building a canoe solely from the materials that the forest provides may become a lost art, even among the Indigenous peoples whose traditional craft it is. The film is without commentary but text frames appear on the screen in Cree, French and English.


Director: Bernard Gosselin
Year: 1971
Genre: Documentary
Type: Feature

Link: https://vimeo.com/791344307


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