Return to the Land of the Head Hunters

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<p>Photographer Edward Curtis¿s 1914 orchestrally scored melodrama<i> In the Land of the Head Hunters </i>was one of the first US films to feature an Indigenous cast. This landmark of early silent cinema was an intercultural product of Curtis¿s collaboration with the Kwakwa_ka_¿wakw of British Columbia¿meant, like Curtis¿s photographs, to document a supposedly vanishing race. But as this collection shows, the epic film is not simply an artifact of colonialist nostalgia.<br/><br/>In recognition of the film¿s centennial, and the release of a restored version, <i>Return to the Land of the Head Hunters</i> brings together leading anthropologists, Native American authorities, artists, musicians, literary scholars, and film historians to reassess the film and its legacy. The volume offers unique Kwakwa_ka_¿wakw perspectives on the film, accounts of its production and subsequent circulation, and evaluations of its depictions of cultural practice. Resituated within film history and informed by