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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.
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IN THE LAND OF THE HEAD HUNTERS by Edward S. Curtis (1914) TRAILER
Editorial context, craft details, and films that share its DNA.
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Waket / Yaklus
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1930