The Oldest Inuit Footage Ever

[Glenn MacGrady]

This is a very interesting video with old footage showing how the Inuits from Alaska to Greenland survived and lived for thousands of years in the Arctic, including depictions of their hunting and fishing techniques, clothing and gear construction, shelter building, music and dance, dogs, and various boats and paddles.

 

[clemency]

Didn't watch far, but at least some of that is from Nanook of the North, which all us anthropology majors had to watch in college back in the 70's. Here's the original film. 1922.

 

[MyKneesHurt]

I wanted to make a seal-gut parka like that so badly at one point in my life. I tried deer gut from a whitetail and I clearly didn't understand the process very well!
The best old footage I've seen was a Canadian series featuring a man called Tuktuk ('caribou', iirc) going about the various activities of Polar life. It was maybe 1950s, and thus a little patronizing, but honestly done, I think.