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In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914)

In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914)

Drama
Release Date: 1914, December 7
Directors: Edward S. Curtis
Countries: Canada, United States of America
Production: Seattle Film Co.
Cast: Bob Wilson, Stanley Hunt, Sarah Constance Smith Hunt, Mrs. George Walkus, Paddy 'Malid, Balutsa, Kwagwanu, Francine Hunt, Awidi, Alfred Charlie, Maggie Frank

Overview:

In the Land of the Head Hunters is a 1914 silent film fictionalizing the world of the Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl) peoples of the Queen Charlotte Strait region of the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada, written and directed by Edward S. Curtis and acted entirely by Kwakwaka'wakw natives. It was the first feature-length film whose cast was composed entirely of Native North Americans; the second, eight years later, was Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North.

Keywords:

silent film british columbia native canadian