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In the Land of the Head Hunters

07 Dec 1914
  • United States of America
65 mins
5.75
20 votes
  • Drama
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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.
  • Stanley Hunt

    as Motana
  • Sarah Constance Smith Hunt

    as Naida and a Na'nalalal Dancer
  • Mrs. George Walkus

    as Naida and Sorceress
  • Paddy 'Malid

    as Kenada
  • Balutsa

    as Waket and Yaklus
  • Kwagwanu

    as Sorcerer
  • Francine Hunt

    as Clam digger, captive, wedding dancer
  • Bob Wilson

    as Fisherman who drops a paddle on the rocks
  • Maggie Frank

    as Naida (uncredited)

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