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Nass River Indians / Photographed by J.S. Watson in collaboration with C.M. Barbeau.
LIBRA VHS E99.N734 N377 2001
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Tsimshian
- Subjects (All):
- Niska Indians.
- Ethnology--British Columbia--Nass River Region.
- Ethnology.
- British Columbia.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (23 min.) : silent, black and white ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- monochrome
- Edition:
- Reconstructed edition / [concept, research, and sequencing [by] Lynda Jessup, Queen's University, Ontario.
- Place of Publication:
- [Kingston, Ont.] : [L. Jessup], [2001]
- Language Note:
- Intertitles in English; introd. note in Niska and English.
- System Details:
- VHS.
- VHS
- Summary:
- "Documents the activities of Marius Barbeau [National Museum of Canada] and Ernest MacMillan [Toronto Conservatory of Music] among the Nisga'a of the Nass River region of British Columbia ... their efforts to record ' with camera and photograph' what the film's first intertitle describes as 'the vanishing culture, the rites and songs and dances ...' "--National Archives of Canada ArchiviaNet.
- Notes:
- Originally produced: Montreal, Québec : Associated Screen News, c1928.
- "This film is related to the following two films: Saving the sagas, c. 1928-29 (9 min. ) ... and Fish and medicine men, c. 1928-29 (7 min.) ... These two films were made ... from a longer film, the 1928 Nass River Indians, which has since disappeared"--Restorer's letter.
- OCLC:
- 63602152
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