Woodworking course; Birch tree harvesting for snowshoes; Scraping moose hides
- 61-374-01 to 61-374-10
- Item
- 1962
Part of Photographic Services Still Photography Records series
01 to 06: Participants in a woodworking course for Indigenous men, sponsored by the vocational training branch of the Saskatchewan Department of Education and the Department of Co-operation and Co-operative Development, and held in La Ronge. 01: Instructor Bob Dalby gives advice to Walter Bird on finishing a hand-made canoe paddle. 02: Miniature dog sleds crafted by someone who has not taken the woodworking course, and one who has. 03: Kazik Parada chisels out a wooden block to make a spoon while Abel Sanderson and Henry Sanderson look on. 04: Henry Sanderson turns a bowl on a wood lathe. 05 to 06: Participants working on projects. 07: Abel Sanderson cuts down a birch tree, the wood of which will be split, carved and shaped to make snowshoes. 08: Sanderson weaves babiche - long narrow strips of moose hide - to make the webbing for snowshoes. 09 to 10: Mrs. Walter Bird and her daughter, Angelique Halkett, scrap moose hides as Halkett's children look on.
Hill, Alan