César’s Bark Canoe, Bernard Gosselin, provided by the National Film Board of Canada
A follower of this blog sent me the link to this video about a Native American making a canoe with a dozen tools and four materials: birch bark he strips from a large birch tree, cedar splints he rives with a knife, spruce roots he ties like string and gum he works like epoxy. Yet despite his rustic materials, the canoe he makes is a thing of grace and beauty.
A fascinating and humbling film.
Thanks for posting the video, beautiful work and at 67, gives me hope.
What a fantastic video! I’ll watch it again.