In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained

Release, runtime and language

1914 · 65 mins

Directed by

Edward S. Curtis

Starring

Bob Wilson, Stanley Hunt, Balutsa, Sarah Constance Smith Hunt, Paddy 'Malid, Mrs. George Walkus

A 1914 silent film that dramatizes the life and customs of the Kwakwaka’wakw (Kwakiutl) peoples of the Queen Charlotte Strait on British Columbia’s central coast. Written and directed by Edward S. Curtis, the picture features an all‑Kwakwaka’wakw cast, making it the first feature‑length film starring only Native North Americans; the next such film, eight years later, was Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North.