The fonds consist of 48 Betacam videocassettes, 6 audiocassettes and 6 cm of textual material. The videocassettes contain stock footage documenting the construction of a birchbark canoe for the Dogrib Birchbark Canoe Project, which took place in May-June, 1996. In addition, there are 2 professionally produced Tlicho (Dogrib) language (English subtitles) broadcast versions of the project; one version is 0:29 in length, the other 0:40. The broadcast versions were completed in early-1997. The 6 audiocassettes contain Tlicho (Dogrib) language interviews conducted at the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, as well as corresponding typed transcriptions. The textual material also includes proposals, project reports, logs for the videocassettes and letters of support.
Dogrib Birchbark Canoe ProjectThe textual records consist of proposals, project reports, logs for the videocassettes, and letters of support for the project. The moving images contain stock footage of the construction a birchbark canoe for the Dogrib Birchbark Canoe Project as well as two professionally produced broadcast versions of the project; one version is 0:29 in length, the other 0:40.
The Dogrib Birchbark Canoe is a broadcast-quality Tlicho (Dogrib) language (with English subtitles) documentary outlining the history of the birchbark canoe in Canada and specifically its importance to the Tlicho. The video documents the construction of one canoe, its design based on a similar birchbark canoe built by Chief Jimmy Bruneau in the late 1960's. This project was a collaborative effort on the parts of the Dogrib Treaty 11 Council, the Dogrib Divisional Board of Education, the elders of Gameti (Rae Lakes) and Behchoko (Rae), the Rae/Edzo Friendship Centre, and the Archaeology Section of the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre. The final product is a concentration of over 20 hours of raw footage shot over an eighteen day period in the spring of 1996. This shorter version of two broadcast versions is 29 minutes in length.
The Dogrib Birchbark Canoe is a broadcast-quality Tlicho (Dogrib) language (with English subtitles) documentary outlining the history of the birchbark canoe in Canada and specifically its importance to the Tlicho. The video documents the construction of one canoe, its design based on a similar birchbark canoe built by Chief Jimmy Bruneau in the late 1960's. This project was a collaborative effort on the parts of the Dogrib Treaty 11 Council, the Dogrib Divisional Board of Education, the elders of Gameti (Rae Lakes) and Behchoko (Rae), the Rae/Edzo Friendship Centre, and the Archaeology Section of the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre. The final product is a concentration of over 20 hours of raw footage shot over an eighteen day period in the spring of 1996. This longer version of two broadcast versions is 40 minutes in length.