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Subject headings Kwakiutl Indians-Social life and customs-Drama. This is a videorecording of the original 1914 film after its 1972 restoration by University of Washington Press. Restored and given a new soundtrack by French musician Rodolphe Burger, ‘Land’ deserves a wider audience upon its rerelease. Originally produced as silent motion picture in 1914 under title: 'In the land of the headhunters', and restored with the addition of an authentic sound track in 1972. A century later, the images captured by Curtis’s camera retain a mysterious fascination, amplified by the oneiric power of silent cinema. Aspects of the film were based on he Kwakwakawakws oral traditions and it accurately portrays rituals, including the potlatch, which were strictly prohibited. Secondly, and most memorably, for its sweeping shots of the North Pacific, and its valuable record of the customs of the tribal societies that once lived beside it. Firstly, for its dramatic adventure story: a tale of vengeful sorcerers, ghastly demons, bloodthirsty warlords and severed heads, at once spirited and deeply spiritual.
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Today, this survey of the Kakwaka’wakw tribe (indigenous to northern Vancouver Island) is doubly interesting.
Curtis had already experimented in the genre with his not-quite-documentary ‘In the Land of the Head Hunters’. This film isnt a documentary but an attempt. A shrill war cry echoes among the hills as the festival participants, in their tribes colourful. Curtis took his cameras to Vancouver Island where he wanted to film the Kwakiutl Indian tribe. Nomadic luxury camps in Kohima Naga Rhapsody. Eight years before Flaherty’s ‘ Nanook of the North’, which remains the representative example of the ethnographic fiction film, Edward S. Travel: Glamping in the land of the headhunters.