Cesar's Bark Canoe
1971•57m•10.0•Released
Documentary
"This documentary depicts a canoe being built in the traditional manner. Cesar Newashish, a 67-year-old Attikamek of the Manawan Reserve North of Montréal, uses only birchbark, cedar splints, spruce roots, and gum. With a sure hand he works methodically to fashion a craft unsurpassed in function or beauty of design. Building a canoe solely from the materials that the forest provides may become a lost art, even among the Native Peoples whose traditional craft it is. The film is free of spoken commentary but text appears on the screen in Cree, French, and English." - Anthology Film Archives
Director
Bernard Gosselin
Studio
ONF | NFB
Cast
César Newashish
Self
Production
Company
ONF | NFB
Producer
Paul Larose
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