Netsilik Eskimos, VII: Fishing at the Stone Weir ⁽¹⁹⁶⁷⁾

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Netsilik Eskimos, VII: Fishing at the Stone Weir

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Titre original :

Netsilik Eskimos, VII: Fishing at the Stone Weir

Durée :

0h 57min

Date de sortie :

December 1967

Réalisé par : Quentin Brown

Full summer, and the tundra is bare; skin tents are up and it is time to attend to the fishing as the fish move upstream. The men are in the river, lifting stones and placing them to form enclosures to trap the fish. A woman skins a duck and then braids her hair in the old way, stiffly around sticks. From a bladder she makes a balloon for the child. The men are fishing with the three-pronged leisters, spearing the fish and stringing them on a thong, until it is as much as a man can do to drag his catch from the water. The woman works quickly, cleaning the fish, and then all enjoy bits of the fresh raw fish.