Summary: Famed photographer Edward Curtis’ film was the first feature-length film to star an all-indigenous cast. "In the Land of the Headhunters" premiered in 1914 with gala openings in New York and Seattle, but was a commercial failure and faded into obscurity. After a single copy arrived at the Field Museum in Chicago, the damaged and incomplete reels were re-edited by Bill Holm and George Quimby and released with a new soundtrack in 1973 as "In the Land of the War Canoes." Evans and co-editor Aaron Glass have now worked with a team of scholars, film specialists, artists, and members of the tribe -- descendants of the original Kwakwaka’wakw cast - to reconstruct, restore and reunite the film with its original orchestral score.
