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Fish and Totem (1921)
Short | 10 min | Documentary, Short, Sport

Fish and Totem (1921)

Short | 10 min | Documentary, Short, Sport

Illustrating the sport of salmon spearing in Alaskan waters, which are simply crowded with salmon on their way to the spawning pools. In some scenes they are shown leaping the cascading waterfalls like a steeplechase. Another scene shows ...See moreIllustrating the sport of salmon spearing in Alaskan waters, which are simply crowded with salmon on their way to the spawning pools. In some scenes they are shown leaping the cascading waterfalls like a steeplechase. Another scene shows sea lions on a rockbound coast and hunters killing them on account of their depredations on the salmon. Finally, there are a number of scenes of Alaskan Indian Totems - those strange family trees of a vanishing race which have a significance little understood by modern ethnologists, See less