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Porpoise oil / by Alexander H. Leighton, MD : [manuscript]
- MS-13-86, Box 96, Folder 9, Item 1
- Item
- [after 1937]
Item is a typed manuscript by Alexander Leighton describing his 1936 summer project filming a recreation of a traditional Digby County Mi'kmaq porpoise hunt and the subsequent rendering of the blubber into oil. The manuscript was commissioned by the magazine Movie Makers.