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• Title:Gwishalaayt = the spirit wraps around you / written and directed by Barb Cranmer ; produced by Cari Green and Barb Cranmer ; produced by Nimpkish Wind Productions.
  
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• Variant Title:Spirit wraps around you
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Cranmer, Barb.
  Green, Cari.
  Xwi7xwa Collection
  Moving Images Distribution.
  Nimpkish Wind Productions.
  
• Published/Created:Vancouver, B.C. : Moving Images Distribution, ©2000.
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY audio-visual Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: DVD WA C73 G85 2000
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects:Indigenous Peoples--Weaving--Northwest Coast.
  Indigenous Peoples--Chilkat textile fabrics.
  Tlingit--Weaving.
  Tsimshian--Weaving.
  
• Library of Congress Subjects: Chilkat textile fabrics.
  Chilkat Indians--Social life and customs.
  Chilkat Indians--Rites and ceremonies.
  Tsimshian art.
  Tlingit art.
  Textile artists--British Columbia--Interviews.
  
• Description:1 videodisc (47 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
  
• Terms governing use:Restrictions: B.C. public post-secondary educational institutions only.
  
• Credits:Director of photography, Rene Sioui LaBelle ; editor, Bill Campbell ; music by Russell Wallace.
  
• Cast:Narration: Doug Brown, Marjorie Brown, Violet McKay.
  
• Summary:Gwishalaayt is the power displayed for the first time ... on the life of six extraordinary people who dedicate themselves to the tradition of Chilkat and Northern geometric weaving. Gwishalaayt means The Spirit Wraps Around You in the Tsimshian language. For thousands of years, art and spirit have been woven together in the magnificent aprons and blankets that depict the ancestral history of the Tlingit and Tshimshian Nations. The unique journey of self-discovery made by each of the artists is captured in intimate interviews at work and on their lands. We witness the intricate, sacred blankets emerging through age-old techniques, from gathering of the cedar bark, dyeing of wool and weaving, to their significant place in the culture of these people.
  
• Local note:First Naitons author.
  
• Notes:"Produced with the participation of British Columbia Film ... in association with Canwest Television Inc., Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, Knowledge Network, Saskatchewan Communications Network."--Closing credits.
  DVD video.
  Tsimshian translations and voiceovers provided by narrators.