Title: In the Land of the Head Hunters (In the Land of the Head Hunters)
Release Date: 1914-12-07
IMDB ID: tt0004150
Vote Average: 5.8 (21 votes)
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.
Cast: Stanley Hunt (Motana), Sarah Constance Smith Hunt (Naida and a Na'nalalal Dancer), Mrs. George Walkus (Naida and Sorceress), Paddy 'Malid (Kenada), Balutsa (Waket and Yaklus), Kwagwanu (Sorcerer),
Crew: Edward S. Curtis (Director),
Release Date: 1914-12-07
IMDB ID: tt0004150
Vote Average: 5.8 (21 votes)
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.
Cast: Stanley Hunt (Motana), Sarah Constance Smith Hunt (Naida and a Na'nalalal Dancer), Mrs. George Walkus (Naida and Sorceress), Paddy 'Malid (Kenada), Balutsa (Waket and Yaklus), Kwagwanu (Sorcerer),
Crew: Edward S. Curtis (Director),