Description |
xxvii, 420 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm |
Series |
Native art of the Pacific Northwest
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Contents |
Introduction. Edward Curtis meets the Kwakwa̲ka̲'wakw : cultural encounter and Indigenous agency : In the land of the head hunters / Aaron Glass and Brad Evans -- Part One. Mediating Indians/Complicating Curtis. Edward Curtis and In the land of the head hunters : four contexts / Mick Gidley ; Images of time : portraiture in The North American Indian / Shamoon Zamir ; Indian landscapes : Pauline Johnson and Edward Curtis / Kate Flint ; A chamber of echoing songs : Edward Curtis as a musical ethnographer / Ira Jacknis ; Photo essay 1. "At the kitchen table with Edward Curtis" / Jeff Thomas -- Part Two. Head Hunters Across Two Centuries. Consuming the Head hunters : a century of film reception / Aaron Glass and Brad Evans ; Unmasking the documentary : notes on the anxiety of Edward Curtis / Colin Browne ; Indian movies and the vernacular of modernism / Brad Evans ; Musical intertextuality in Indigenous film : making and remaking In the land of the head hunters / Klisala Harrison ; Reflections on working with Edward Curtis / Barbara Cranmer (T̓łak̲wagila̲'og̲wa) ; Photo essay 2. "Old images/new wiews : Indigenous perspectives on Edward Curtis" / Dr. E. Richard Atleo, Pam Brown, Marie Clements, Karrmen Crey, Mique'l Icesis Dangeli, Andy Everson, Linc Kesler, David Neel, Evelyn Vanderhoop, and William Wasden Jr. -- Part Three. Reimagining Curtis Today. In the land of the head hunters : reconstruction, not restoration / Jere Guldin ; In the land of the head hunters and the history of silent film music / David Gilbert ; Performing Braham, interpreting Curtis : a conversation on conducting / Neal Stulberg, Owen Underhill, Timothy Long, and Laura Ortman ; "What the creator gave to us" : an interview with William Wasden Jr. (Wax̲a̲widi) ; Cultural interpretation / Dave Hunsaker ; The Kwakwa̲ka̲'wakw business of showing : tradition meets modernity on the silver screen and the world stage / Aaron Glass -- Afterword / Paul Chaat Smith -- Appendix 1. Promotional images for In the land of the head hunters -- Appendix 2. The Kwakwa̲ka̲'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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952
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Motion pictures in ethnology
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Ethnographic films
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Kwakiutl Indians
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Indigenous peoples in motion pictures
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Photography in ethnology
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Indigenous films
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Cinematography
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Genre/Form |
Ethnographic films.
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Ethnographic films.
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Author |
Evans, Brad, 1968-
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Glass, Aaron
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LC no. |
2013043531 |
ISBN |
9780295993447 |
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0295993448 |
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