Which Indigenous people were featured in In the Land of the Head Hunters?

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Curtis, Edward S. — Edward S. Curtis Self-portrait, photogravure by Edward S. Curtis, 1899; in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Edward S. Curtis’s 1914 feature film, In the Land of the Head Hunters, centered on the Kwakiutl (also known as the Kwakwaka’wakw) people of British Columbia.1

The film utilized a fictitious love story set in a pre-contact era to document various aspects of their culture, including hunting customs, religious beliefs, and traditional ceremonies.1