Cesar's Bark Canoe

Name: Cesar's Bark Canoe
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1971-01-01
Duration: 57 min
Rating: 10
Cast: César Newashish

César et son canot d'écorce

10.0 (1)1971-01-0157m

Documentary

Overview

"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