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Canadian Gift to Navy

Date released

1 Aug 1960

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1626

NoS ID

023712

Story no

5 / 7

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Canadian Gift to Navy. DESCRIPTION: Our pictures show a King-size Totem, a present to the School of Gunnery from the Canadian Government. It will soon stand on Whale Island, near...

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In the Land of the War Canoes (1972 Film)

aka: In the Land of the Headhunters

Director

Edward S Curtis

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A romanticised saga of Kwakiutl Indian life on the northwest coast of America, filmed in 1914 by Edward S Curtis, who was already famous for his still photographs of Indians, and his writings about them. It...

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Art of Myths, The (Vol 1) (2007)

aka: Arts du Mythe, Les

Director

Philippe Truffault

Subject

Anthropology; Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 234 minutes), £24.99

The stories behind some of the great artworks and artefacts from cultures of the world. Initially derided as curios of ‘primitive’ art, and even though they served as inspirations for some of the great...

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In Search of the Hamat’Sa: A Tale of Headhunting (2006)

Director

Aaron Glass

Subject

Anthropology; Dance

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 33 minutes), £50.00

Produced in the Program for Culture and Media at New York University, The Hamat’sa (or "Cannibal Dance") is the most important and widely known ceremony of the Kwakwaka’wakw (Kwakiutl) people of British...

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