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In the Land of the Head Hunters has often been discussed as a flawed documentary: it combines many accurate representations of aspects of Kwakwaka ' wakw culture, art, and technology from the era in which it was made with a melodramatic plot based on practices that either dated from long before the first contact of the Kwakwaka ' wakw with people of European descent or were entirely fictional.

Curtis appears never to have specifically presented the film as a documentary, but he also never specifically called it a work of fiction.