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Eskimo Arts and Crafts

A doc about the Inuit art of Baffin Island. The film illustrates traditional leatherwork and carving, and the construction of a kayak.
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A doc about the Inuit art of Baffin Island. The film illustrates traditional leatherwork and carving, and the construction of a kayak.

Crafts Indigenous Peoples in Canada (Inuit) Visual Arts All subjects
  • director
    Laura Boulton
  • producer
    Laura Boulton
  • photography
    Grant McLean
  • consultant
    Robert Flaherty

Education

Ages 15 to 17
School subjects
Indigenous Studies - Arts Media Education - Documentary Film Social Studies - Communities in Canada/World
Students will analyze the impacts, on the viewing audience, of the paternalistic attitudes and beliefs voiced in the non-Eskimo written narration versus the skills and ingenuity depicted in the visuals of the Eskimo arts and crafts. Students will consider the importance of these skills for survival, community cohesion and organization versus the meaning and uses of the term “arts and crafts.”

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