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In the Land of the Head Hunters is a canadien film of genre Drama released in USA on 7 december 1914

In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914)

In the Land of the Head Hunters
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Released in USA 7 december 1914
Length 1h7
OriginCanada
Genres Drama,    Documentary
Rating59% 2.951612.951612.951612.951612.95161

In the Land of the Head Hunters (also called In the Land of the War Canoes) 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 selected in 1999 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant." 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.



^ "Web site for In the Land of the Head Hunters re-release, a joint project of U'mista and Rutgers University". Retrieved 2008-06-22.

^ "Films selected to the National Film Registry, Library of Congress 1989-2005". Retrieved 2008-08-27.

Synopsis

The following plot synopsis was published in conjunction with a 1915 showing of the film at Carnegie Hall:

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