Website design and programming: John C. Amodeo ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it )

Website funding and technical support: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Images:

• Edmund Schwinke photographs from Curtis’s 1914 film sets (courtesy Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture)
• Contemporary pictures of Alert Bay (courtesy U’mista Cultural Society, Sharon Eva Grainger, and Aaron Glass)
• Original Curtis film posters, billboards, and playbills (courtesy Bill Utley)
• Images of the original John Braham score (courtesy Getty Research Library)
• Exhibit “Old Images/New Views: Responding to Edward Curtis” (texts courtesy the authors and UBC Museum of Anthropology)
• Exhibit “Staging Edward Curtis: Photographs by Sharon Eva Grainger” (images courtesy Sharon Eva Grainger and U’mista Cultural Society)

Audio:

• All elements of the original John Braham film score (courtesy Getty Research Library)
• Recording of the score’s “Prelude” (made by the Turning Point Ensemble)
• Synthesized samples of the score (prepared by David Gilbert, UCLA, in collaboration with the Getty Research Institute)
• Original Curtis wax cylinder recordings (courtesy Archive of Traditional Music, Indiana University, Bloomington)
• Contemporary recordings of Kwakwaka’wakw music by the Gwa’wina Dancers (courtesy Gwa’wina Dancers and U’mista Cultural Society).

Video:

• Scenes from In the Land of the Head Hunters (courtesy Field Museum)

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