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Edward Curtis Meets the Kwakwaka’wakw
In the Land of the Head Hunters
Edward Curtis Meets The Kwakwakawakw :: IN THE LAND OF THE HEAD HUNTERS

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Edward Curtis Meets the Kwakwaka’wakw
In the Land of the Head Hunters

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U’mista Cultural Centre 
The Getty Research Institute
UCLA Film & Television Archive
The Field Museum
Milestone film & video
University of Washington Press
Autry National Center 
The Moore Theatre (Seattle Theatre Group)
The Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture
Seattle International Film Festival
The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia
University of British Columbia - First Nations and Indigenous Studies
UBC Centenary 2008
National Gallery of Art
Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian
American Museum of Natural History
New York University
Rutgers University
Bard Graduate Center

2008 Events

  • 2008 Schedule & Program
  • Gwa'wina Dancers
  • Gwa’wina Program Details
  • Event Photos
  • Event Press
  • Project Highlights Video

Project Press

  • KUOW Radio (Seattle, WA), Wednesday May 21, 2008:
    http://www.kuow.org/defaultProgram.asp?ID=15021
  • Sun Community Newspapers (San Fernando Valley, CA), Friday May 30, 2008:
    “Anthropologist resurrects historical film” BY RACHEL HELLER
    http://www.suncommunitynewspapers.com/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=875&cntnt01returnid=59
  • Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Thursday, June 5:
    http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/movies/365935_siff06.html
  • Vancouver Sun
    • Thursday June 5, 2008:
      • “First nations dancers celebrate restoration of historic film” BY KEVIN GRIFFIN
        http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=78ed1de0-d7ae-49ec-a14d-3200a8e1ce47
      • “Restored silent film focuses on love, revenge, murder” BY KEVIN GRIFFIN
        http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=2d8afe5d-1f15-44de-868f-15c7c61e2b36&k=84718
      • “Restorers rescue pioneer filmmaker's unique depiction of B.C. coast first nations” BY KEVIN GRIFFIN http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastlife/story.html?id=a97173b9-1219-486f-86cc-8defc6727048
    • Friday, June 6, 2008:
      • “Curtis always wanted to record the beliefs of North American Indians” BY KEVIN GRIFFIN
        http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=09b94796-5093-4f87-b68a-95a620cf7827
      • “In the land of the headhunters: For the Kwakwaka'wakw, dancing and singing for the camera would be like sending a message in a bottle to future generations of their people” BY KEVIN GRIFFIN
        http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/story.html?id=7f1eb062-202a-4928-8114-e84ff2c9d5c6
    • Saturday, June 7, 2008:
      “First nations chronicler: Edward Curtis published 20 volumes of documentary photos” BY KEVIN GRIFFIN
      http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/arts/story.html?id=0babb9ca-ea80-4eb9-ad64-b1a53e5ca8f5
    • Saturday, June 21, 2008:
      “Dances tell spectacular tales: Kwakwaka'wakw to perform at Chan Centre with screening of restored 1914 film” BY KEVIN GRIFFIN
      http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/arts/story.html?id=dee1c5e8-c50c-40da-93e2-4dc477b52857
    • Monday, June 23, 2008:
      “Aboriginal dancers stage powerful performance: Live dancing and singing trumps screening of historic film.” (review) BY KEVIN GRIFFIN
      http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/arts/story.html?id=3a0e622c-16e7-4910-aed4-bd7480288f90
    • Friday, November 07, 2008:
      “Aboriginal orchestra takes Headhunters film on U.S. tour” by Kevin Griffin
      http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/entertainment/story.html?id=b5c5e352-667b-4450-87b5-babf6b523f57
    • Saturday, November 08, 2008:
      Alert Bay takes on New York” BY KEVIN GRIFFIN
      http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/arts/story.html?id=eb82927a-7dfc-4a25-a0a0-e579e5a73088  
  • North Seattle Herald Outlook, Friday, June 6 (preview with photo):
    http://www.pacificpublishingcompany.com/site/index.cfm?newsid=19753927&BRD=855&PAG=461&dept_id=517907&rfi=8
  • Seattle International Film Festival Blog, Saturday, June 7, 2008:
    http://www.siffblog.com/reviews/curtis_and_the_kwakiutls_004918.html
  • Seattle Times, Sunday June 8, 2008:
    “Silent film ‘In the Land of the Head Hunters’ returns to Moore after 94 years” BY MOIRA MACDONALD
    http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/movies/2004461738_headhunters08.html
  • News from Indian Country, Sunday, June 8 (mention)
    http://indiancountrynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3783&Itemid=71
  • Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Monday June 9, 2008:
    “Edward Curtis' 'Head Hunters' takes another bow with film festival screening:
    Landmark film returns to the site of its 1914 premiere” BY WILLIAM ARNOLD

    http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/movies/366131_headhunters09.html
  • Seattlest.com, Tuesday, June 10 (Preview):
    http://seattlest.com/2008/06/10/94_years_on_in_the_land_of_the_head.php#comments
  • Moviepie Musings (blog), Wednesday June 11, 2008:
    http://moviepie.blogspot.com/2008/06/siff-12-land-of-dancing-bears-and.html
  • Seattlest.com, Wednesday, June 11 (review):
    http://seattlest.com/2008/06/11/indians_in_the_mist.php
  • CBC Radio (90.5 FM, Victoria, BC): Monday, June 16, 2008:
    (interview with Aaron Glass and Andrea Sanborn)
  • Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Monday, June 16 (mention)
    http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/movies/367115_siff16.html
  • greencine.com: Monday, June 16 (mention)
    http://daily.greencine.com/archives/006235.html
  • The Georgia Straight (Vancouver, BC), Thursday, June 19, 2008:
    “Sleuthing revives lost film of First Nations life by Edward Curtis” BY GUDRUN WILL
    http://www.straight.com/article-150233/sleuthing-revives-lost-film?#
  • Global TV Weekend Morning News (Vancouver, BC), Saturday, June 21, 2008:
    (Interview with Aaron Glass and Dustin Rivers [of the Gwa’wina Dancers])
  • Co-op Radio (CFRO 102.7 FM, Vancouver), Tuesday, June 24, 2008:
    (interview with Aaron Glass and Barbara Cranmer)
  • CBC Radio (690 AM, Vancouver, BC): Tuesday, June 24, 2008:
    (interview with Dana Claxton)
  • The Globe and Mail (Vancouver, BC), Tuesday, June 24, 2008:
    “Researchers restore long-lost 1913 epic” BY MARSHA LEDERMAN
    http://ago.mobile.globeandmail.com/generated/archive/RTGAM/html/20080624/whunters24.html
  • Anthropology News, October 2008 (Society for Visual Anthropology listing):
    “Edward Curtis meets the Kwakwaka’wakw” BY AARON GLASS
  • National Museum of the American Indian magazine, Fall 2008 (Washington DC Exhibitions + Events Calendar section).
  • NPR “Studio 360” radio program, November 7, 2008:
    http://studio360.org/episodes/2008/11/07
  • Materialworld blog, November 18, 2008:
    “Roving reporter - the Mead Film Festival at the AMNH” BY JOSHUA BELL
    http://www.materialworldblog.com
  • Natural History magazine, November 2008 (At the Museum section):
    “Art and Anthropology at the 2008 Mead Festival.”
  • Native Peoples magazine, November/December 2008 (Happening/Events section):
    “Paddling out of the Mists of Time” BY DANIEL GIBSON
    http://www.nativepeoples.com/article/articles/307/1/2008-NovemberDecember-Happening-Events/Page1.html
  • Smithsonian magazine, December 2008 (Around the Mall section):
    “The Past is Prologue: How a Film Helped Preserve a Native Culture” BY ANDREW CURRY
    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/around-the-mall-old-documentary-on-western-tribes-restored-90972613/
  • In the Field magazine (The Field Museum’s Member Publication), Winter 2008/2009:
    Program calendar listing for November.
  • An acoustic review of the "Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival (December 2008) BY JENNIFER HEUSON:
    http://phonoscopy.com/JenHeuson/margaretmead.html

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