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The Totem Mark
(1911) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by [?] Francis Boggs and/or Otis Turner?
Cast: J. Barney Sherry [Sachem], Jane Keckley [Sachem’s squaw], Viola Barry [in prologue], Leonide Watson [in prologue], Adele Worth [in prologue], Jack Conway [Ojibway warrior], Hobart Bosworth [Lotokah], Bessie Eyton [Zeetah], Donald M. McDonald (Donald MacDonald) [a young warrior], Major J.A. McGuire [the Ojibway chief], [?] Kathlyn Williams?, [?] Tom Santschi?, [?] Charles Clary?, [?] Tom Mix?, [?] Joseph Girard?
The Selig Polyscope Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Produced by William N. Selig. Scenario by [?] Edward McWade and/or Hobart Bosworth and Otis Turner? / Released 5 September 1911. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama: Western.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Little Zeetah, a daughter of an old chief of the Mississaugas, was stolen by a marauding warrior of the fiercer Ojibways, and grew up in his tribe, where her beauty won her endless suitors. To all she turned a deaf ear, and the young squaws, seeing how her attractions prevented the bucks from paying proper attentions to their charms, conspired to rid the village of her. Their opportunity came when she refused a proud voting chief, and they declared her a witch. She was sentenced to be sent adrift upon a rapid stream bound in a canoe where her fate was sure, for beneath the village were terrible falls. Just at this time, the old Mississauga chief sent his son, Lotokah, to the Ojibways with presents, and he, discovering his sister's identity by her totem mark, was able to save her and restore her to her mother’s arms.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 6 October 2023.
References: Norris-Mix p. 109 : ClasIm-225 p. 43 : Website-IMDb.
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