Dances of the Kwakiutl - a 1951 film by American ethnographer William Heick

This was filmed by American ethnographer William Heick in 1950 in Fort Rupert. This a film of the Kwakwaka’wakw at Fort Rupert doing the dance of the secret Hamatsa society. Fort Rupert is home to the Kwakuitl First Nation (also know as Kwagu’ł) ’wakw Photography William Heick Producer Robert Gardner Sound Morris Dowd Produced by Orbit Films for release through Dimensions Inc Original source is at this link: The copyright I believe currently belongs to DER : Documentary Education Society even the source would seem to indicate it is now in the public domain.