Indian Movies and the Vernacular of Modernism / Brad EvansĨ. Unmasking the Documentary: Notes on the Anxiety of Edward Curtis / Colin Browneħ. Consuming the Head Hunters: A Century of Film REception / Aaron Glass and Brad EvansĦ.
"At the Kitchen Table with Edward Curtis"/ Jeff Thomas A Chamber of Echoing Songs: Edward Curtis as a Musical Ethnographer / Ira Jacknis Indian Landscapes: Pauline Johnson and Edward Curtis / Kate FlintĤ. Images of Time: Portraiture in The North American Indian / Shamoon Zamirģ. Edward Curtis and In the Land of the Head Hunters: Four Contexts / Micky GidleyĢ. Mediating Indians / Complicating Curtisġ. U'mista Cultural Society Statement of Participation / William T.
IN THE LAND OF THE HEADHUNTERS MOVIE MOVIE
Resituated within film history and informed by a legacy of Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw participation and response, the movie offers dynamic evidence of ongoing cultural survival and transformation under shared conditions of modernity. The volume offers unique Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw perspectives on the film, accounts of its production and subsequent circulation, and evaluations of its depictions of cultural practice.
In recognition of the film’s centennial, and the release of a restored version, Re turn to the Land of the Head Hunters brings together leading anthropologists, Native American authorities, artists, musicians, literary scholars, and film historians to reassess the film and its legacy. But as this collection shows, the epic film is not simply an artifact of colonialist nostalgia. This landmark of early silent cinema was an intercultural product of Curtis’s collaboration with the Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw of British Columbia-meant, like Curtis’s photographs, to document a supposedly vanishing race. Photographer Edward Curtis’s 1914 orchestrally scored melodrama In the Land of the Head Hunters was one of the first US films to feature an Indigenous cast.