20-minute documentary film.

Course project for ANTH 409 Applied Ethnographic Film. Course professor: Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier.

From massive whale skulls to delicate fish bones, this 20-minute film explores the renowned zooarchaeology reference collection at the University of Victoria’s Anthropology department. Featuring interviews with the collection’s main creator, Becky Wigen, and the staff and students whose research relies on its diversity of species, The Bare Bones reveals how this collection has become one of the finest in western North America.

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