In the Land of the Head Hunters

1914

English

5.8

♡ 4

Edward S. Curtis Director

Francine Hunt as Clam digger Awidi

Awidi as Extra

Bob Wilson as Fisherman who drops a paddle on the rocks

Kwagwanu as Sorcerer

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.