Return to the Land of the Head Hunters: Edward S. Curtis, the Kwakwaka'wakw, and the Making of Modern Cinema
Contents:
U'mista Cultural Society: Statement of Participation, William T. Cranmer
Foreword. Bill Holm
Preface. Brad Evans and Aaron Glass
Introduction. Edward Curtis Meets the Kwakwaka'wakw: Cultural Encounter and Indigenous Agency In the Land of The Head Hunters, Aaron Glass and Brad Evans
Part One: Mediating Indians/Complicating Curtis
1. Edward S. Curtis and In the Land of the Head Hunters: Four Contexts, Mick Gidley
2. Images of Time: Portraiture in The North American Indian, Shamoon Zamir
3. Indian Landscapes: Pauline Johnson and Edward Curtis, Kate Flint
4. A Chamber of Echoing Songs: Edward Curtis as a Musical Ethnographer, Ira Jacknis
Photo Essay 1: "At the Kitchen Table with Edward S. Curtis," Jeff Thomas
Part Two: Head Hunters across Two Centuries
5. Consuming the Head Hunters: A Century of Film Reception, Aaron Glass and Brad Evans
6. Unmasking the Documentary: Notes on the Anxiety of Edward Curtis, Colin Browne
7. Indian Movies and the Vernacular of Modernism, Brad Evans
8. Musical Intertextuality in Indigenous Film: Making and Remaking In the Land of the Head Hunters, Klisala Harrison
9. Reflections on Working with Edward Curtis, Barbara Cranmer (T'lakwagilogwa)
Photo Essay 2: "Old Images/New Views: Indigenous Perspectives on Edward Curtis"
Part Three: Reimagining Curtis Today
10. In the Land of the Head Hunters: Reconstruction, not Restoration, Jere Guldin
11. In the Land of the Head Hunters and the History of Silent Film Music, David Gilbert
12. Performing Braham, Interpreting Curtis: A Conversation on Conducting, Neal Stulberg, Owen Underhill, Timothy Long, and Laura Ortman
13. "What the Creator Gave to Us": An Interview with William Wasden Jr. (Waxawidi)
14. Cultural Interpretation, Dave Hunsaker
15. The Kwakwaka'wakw Business of Showing: Tradition Meets Modernity on the Silver Screen and the World's Stage, Aaron Glass
Afterword: Twentieth Century Fox, Paul Chaat Smith
Appendix 1: Promotional Images for In the Land of the Head Hunters
Appendix 2: The Kwakwaka'wakw Cast and Crew of In the Land of the Head Hunters
Appendix 3: Curtis Film Props in the Collection of the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture
Appendix 4: Title Cards from the 2008 Reconstruction of In the Land of the Head Hunters
