Rush Post #2

So in the few small segments that we watched before watching the entirety of Nanook of the North, I focused on what looked like Polar bear pelts and made my gram to track through the film polar bears/polar bear pelts. The first instance that polar bear pelts appear is as Nanook’s trousers, which no one else in the tribe seems to wear. It is as if the pure white pelts were saved to note people in power among the native peoples. This also seems to come out of the fact that the rest of the pelts get sold to the traders at the ‘white’ trading post down the river. Those pelts perhaps are very rare and worth a lot more to the traders than the seal parts. Of course, the polar bears didn’t show up again until later in the film when the family group set up camp and had gone hunting. Nanook made two little polar bears out of snow for one of his sons to practice hunting using a bow and arrow. It seems interesting that they chose to sculpt that rather than say a fox or a seal. It seems to be a symbol of power if one is able to take down a bear of that size on their own. Nanook has claimed to have taken two down on his own, by hand. My particular gram didn't appear again in the film. I am not sure if I picked the right thing to track given the lack of visual information. It does seem though that polar bears do mean something of a place of power. I just wish that it would have been clearer.