Head Hunters of the South Seas
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Martin Johnson
Director
Nagapate
Martin Johnson
Osa Johnson
Arthur Hoerl
Titles
Arthur Hoerl
Film Editor
Film Details
Genre
Documentary
Release Date
Oct
1,
1922
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Martin Johnson Film Co.
Distribution Company
Associated Exhibitors
Country
United States
Synopsis
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson pay a return visit to Nagapate, Chief of the Big Numbers, a tribe of cannibals in the South Sea island of Malekula who had held the Johnsons captive 2 years before. They show him the movie they made of their experience: Captured by Cannibals. They also visit the primitive tribes of Santo; the island of Lombumbubu, home of a strange tribe of monkey people who live in trees; and Tomann, where the natives bind their children's heads so that they grow long. Also shown are how human heads are mummified, methods of shark fishing, and the eruption of Lopevi, a volcano.
Director
Martin Johnson
Director
Film Details
Genre
Documentary
Release Date
Oct
1,
1922
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Martin Johnson Film Co.
Distribution Company
Associated Exhibitors
Country
United States
