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Dir: Edward A. Salisbury

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Gow perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Scenes from an expedition headed by Dr. Edward A. Salisbury to Central and South America.

Dir: Edward A. Salisbury

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Gow the Head Hunter perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Edward G. Salisbury leads an expedition to the South Sea Islands, including the Marquesas and Samoa. They observe cannibals and headhunters in the Fiji and Solomon Islands. The travelogue presents picturesque scenery, a visit to Robert Louis Stevenson's grave, volcanoes, war dances, and other customs of native life.

Dir: Edward A. Salisbury

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of On the Spanish Main perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Explorer Edward Salisbury takes an expedition across the Pacific Ocean to such exotic places as Fiji, Samoa, Papua New Guinea and the New Hebrides, and records the lives of the diverse natives he encounters there.

Dir: Edward A. Salisbury

Captain Edward A. Salisbury (1875-1962) was a noted millionaire explorer and writer, whose exploration stories of the islands of the South Seas Pacific appeared often in "The National Geographic," and other magazines in the early part of the 20th-century, spent 18 months exploring the New Hebrides islands where head-hunting and cannibalism was practiced by some of the natives...and highly discouraged and frowned-upon the white-governments of their lands. The footage shot by Captain Edward A. Salisbury was put together to make this film. Captain Salisbury explained that 'gow' was the native term for the practice of head-hunting, and was not the name of one of the head-hunters.