Kwakiutl Winter Ceremonial Dance, Edward S. Curtis In the Land of the Head Hunters

In this brief clip from Edward S. Curtis’ 1914 melodrama “In the Land of the Head-Hunters,“ a dramatitization of the dramatic Kwakwaka’wakw (Kwakiutl) Winter Ceremonial dance is performed by costume figures representing the Grizzly Bear, Wolf, Mountain Goat, Wasp, Deer and Dog.