Exploring Traditional Netsilik Lifestyle

Mar 26, 2025

At the Caribou Crossing Place: Part 1 - NFB

Overview

  • Film Series: Netsilik Series
  • Timeframe Filmed: Summer 1963 - Late Winter 1965
  • Release Year: 1967
  • Focus: Traditional lifestyle of the Netsilingmiut around Kuugaruk

Episode Summary

  • Setting: Early Autumn
  • Activities Depicted:
    • A woman working on caribou skins
    • Men returning from a hunt with caribou
    • A boy picking berries and playing as a hunter

Related Topics

  • Fishing and Hunting Industries
  • Indigenous Peoples in Canada (Inuit)
  • Animals

Creative Team

  • Director & Producer: Quentin Brown
  • Executive Producer: Kevin Smith
  • Consultants:
    • Asen Balikci
    • Guy Mary-Rousselire
  • Camera Crew:
    • Richard Bergman, Ken Campbell, Ken Post, Douglas Wilkinson, Robert Young
  • Sound: Jacques Drouin
  • Editing Team:
    • Elvin Carini, Michel Chalifour, William Gaddis, Jack Hirschfield, Bill Tannebring
  • Sound Editing:
    • Malca Gillson, Ken Page, Don Wellington

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  • DVD option available

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