Eskimo Walrus Hunt – American Indian Film Gathering

Film Details

Title: Eskimo Walrus Hunt
Year: ca. 1920s
Duration: 0:06:48
Director: Donald B. MacMillan
Writer: Donald B. MacMillan
Producer: Filmosound Library
Narrator: Commander Donald B. MacMillan
Sponsor: unknown
Major Themes: Eskimo hunters in kayaks search for walrus: footage from Teens or Twenties; narration added in the early 1930s as a travel-talk.
Native Languages Spoken: none; English voiceover
Noteworthy Elements: "Note the intelligence of the Eskimo people."
Other: Donald Baxter MacMillan was a noted arctic explorer in the years before and after the two world wars, making his final journey to the arctic in 1954. He was an early protégé of Commander Peary, and did some of the earliest ethnographic studies of Greenland and Labrador (Nunavut) native peoples. He was stranded in the arctic from 1914-17 during the Crocker Land Expedition. See: