Cesar's Bark Canoe
"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
Documentary
10.0
1 reviewsRuntime: 57 min.
Budget: N/A
Revenue: N/A
Release Date: 1971-01-01
Director(s): Bernard Gosselin
Production: ONF | NFB
IMDB: tt3565124
