Description of the excerpts from the film Umiaq Skin Boat from Jobie Weetaluktuk

A motor boat is advancing in the water. From the inside of the boat, we see the back of three passengers in Nordic garments. Then we see the coastline, a typical Nordic summer landscape: rocks without trees. Finally, we see a village with prefabricated houses. The voice over, in Inuktituk, tells us that “ a group of elders has decided to build an Umiaq, the first in over 50 years. We close-up to hands using see tools: an electric drill and a wood cutter. A larger shot shows us the structure of a hull witgh Inuit working on it. “The Pukkik group is making the Umiaq something our ancestors used to haunt marine mammals in open water”

We see again the hull and the workers and a vintage photography of Inuit hunters with their harpoons. (end of the excerpt)