Cesar's Bark Canoe

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

star 10 8.9
  • Release Date: 1971-01-01
  • Runtime: 0h 57min
  • Director: Bernard Gosselin

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Cast

  • César Newashish

    Self

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