Cesar's Bark Canoe (1971)

"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

Released Jan. 1, 1971 57 min None+

Genres: Documentary

Keywords: tmdb.quebec-direct-cinema, imdb.native-canadian, imdb.punctuation-in-title, imdb.tree-bark, imdb.canoe-building, imdb.character-name-in-title, mdblist.one-actor

Production Companies: ONF | NFB

Country: Canada
Languages: French