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César's Bark Canoe

César's Bark Canoe

| 57 min

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.


Credits
  • director
    Bernard Gosselin
  • photography
    Bernard Gosselin
  • producer
    Paul Larose
  • sound
    Serge Beauchemin
  • editing
    Monique Fortier
  • music
    Maurice Blackburn
  • re-recording
    Roger Lamoureux
  • participant
    Cesar Newashish

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