In 1911, as part of his massive undertaking, famed Northwest photographer Edward S. Curtis travelled to Vancouver Island, British Columbia, to visit the Kwakwaka’wakw. By the next year, needing money for his project and to add to his research and still photography work, Curtis decided that the best way to record the traditional way of life and ceremonies of the Kwakwaka’wakw was to make one of the first feature motion pictures. Curtis had already shot footage in 1906 of the Hopi Snake dance, which he had previously showed during his talks, but this was to be on a grander scale. It took three years of preparation for this one film including the weaving of the costumes; building of the war canoes, housefronts, poles; and the carving of masks. Assisting on the film was George Hunt, a Kwakwaka’wakw who had served as an interpreter for the famous anthropologist Franz Boas nearly twenty years before. Hunt helped contribute substantial portions of the film’s story as well.
Also Known As (AKA): In the Land of the War Canoes, En la tierra de los cazadores de cabezas
File Name : In the Land of the Head Hunters.mp4
File Size : 817.91 MB
Resolution : 640×480
Duration : 01:06:34
Video : AVC (AVC), 1 500 Kbps, 23.954 fps
Audio : AAC (AAC LC), 126 Kbps (VBR), 48.0 KHz, 2 channels, 2 streams
Quality: DVDRip
Language: English intertitles
Genre: Drama, History
