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Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1922 Oct. 12
Identifier(s): text:65947
Description: Received letter of September 28. Gathered 36 kinds of seeds for Boas since returning home. Sending 6 photographs and pages 2474-2480 on how the Indians used them. Edward Curtis did not take down the stories of the dances in the pictures. Notes that Boas pays much better than the Victoria Museum. Requests a copy of a book seen in the Museum with pictures that Boas and Hastings took of people Hunt knew. Government has given a very short trapping season this year. It was "a great pleasure" to spend time together again.
Creator: Hunt, George
Source: Franz Boas Papers (Mss.B.B61); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B61-ead.xml
Subject: Kwakwaka'wakw; Kwakiutl Indians
Date: 1922 Oct. 12

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1925 Nov. 26
Identifier(s): text:66219
Description: Acknowledging receipt of payment for pages 3120-3175.
Creator: Hunt, George
Source: Franz Boas Papers (Mss.B.B61); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B61-ead.xml
Subject: Kwakwaka'wakw; Kwakiutl Indians
Date: 1925 Nov. 26

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1913 May 12
Identifier(s): text:65224
Description: Sending 123 pages of the different marriages of the senL!Em nEmemot and its beginning with Q!omoks and Lekwiltok. Story begins 40+ years before Fort Rupert was built up. Cannot send any plants yet as the weather is still too cold.
Creator: Hunt, George
Source: Franz Boas Papers (Mss.B.B61); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B61-ead.xml
Subject: Kwakwaka'wakw; Kwakiutl Indians; Lekwiltok; Comox Indians
Date: 1913 May 12

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1918 Mar. 29
Identifier(s): text:65410
Description: Received letter of March 15. Sending 17 pages of place names corresponding to map sent. Difficult to remember all of the place names and stories because they are so numerous. Writing G̱usgimukw dog story.
Creator: Hunt, George
Source: Franz Boas Papers (Mss.B.B61); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B61-ead.xml
Subject: Kwakwaka'wakw; Kwakiutl Indians; Gusgimukw
Date: 1918 Mar. 29

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1925 Nov. 10
Identifier(s): text:66084
Description: Letter in Kwakiutl, with English translation, describing Hunt's mourning for his son David and thanks to Boas. Mentions being at Wawał, Seymour Inlet.
Creator: Hunt, George
Source: Franz Boas Papers (Mss.B.B61); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B61-ead.xml
Subject: Kwakwaka'wakw; Kwakiutl Indians; Nak'waxda'xw
Date: 1925 Nov. 10

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1919 Apr. 10
Identifier(s): text:65605
Description: Received letter of March 27. Sending pages 1383-1398, answering questions from December 25, 1918 letter. Will work on new pages of questions sent. Indians do not answer questions for free as they used to. Received check. Food prices rising. David very sick.
Creator: Hunt, George
Source: Franz Boas Papers (Mss.B.B61); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B61-ead.xml
Subject: Kwakwaka'wakw; Kwakiutl Indians
Date: 1919 Apr. 10

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1917 Nov. 30
Identifier(s): text:65346
Description: Sending 16 pages of copy sent for reviewing, and 3 pages of maxwEyaledze different names. Could not make out some names in the copy for review. Compares differences in forms of a particular name among Tłatła̱siḵwa̱la, Kwaguʼł, and Wuikinuxv. Explains difference in speaking of q!alid, history teller of the nEkEmgElisEla, and q!omkEnes, history teller of the Tłatła̱siḵwa̱la.
Creator: Hunt, George
Source: Franz Boas Papers (Mss.B.B61); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B61-ead.xml
Subject: Kwakwaka'wakw; Kwakiutl Indians; Kwagu'ł; Tłatłasikwala; Oowekeeno Indians; Wuikinuxv
Date: 1917 Nov. 30

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1928 Dec. 29
Identifier(s): text:66324
Description: Acknowledging receipt of payment.
Creator: Hunt, George
Source: Franz Boas Papers (Mss.B.B61); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B61-ead.xml
Subject: Kwakwaka'wakw; Kwakiutl Indians
Date: 1928 Dec. 29

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1923 May 31
Identifier(s): text:65946
Description: Received letter of May 22. Will go with Boas to Bella Bella. Suggests payment rate.
Creator: Hunt, George
Source: Franz Boas Papers (Mss.B.B61); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B61-ead.xml
Subject: Kwakwaka'wakw; Kwakiutl Indians; Heiltsuk Indians
Date: 1923 May 31

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1918 Sept. 25
Identifier(s): text:65545
Description: Acknowledging receipt of payment for pages 842-962; Indian names of map (March 29th), 8 pages; 1020-1028; and 6 songs.
Creator: Hunt, George
Source: Franz Boas Papers (Mss.B.B61); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B61-ead.xml
Subject: Kwakwaka'wakw; Kwakiutl Indians
Date: 1918 Sept. 25

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1924 Aug. 16
Identifier(s): text:66044
Description: Received letter of June 27. Answers question regarding similar phrases meaning "goes into houses" and "vomited in/out of a house." Gives additional corrections on other phrases and sounds. Sending 30 pages. Tells that brother-in-law Dan Wilson recently passed.
Creator: Hunt, George
Source: Franz Boas Papers (Mss.B.B61); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B61-ead.xml
Subject: Kwakwaka'wakw; Kwakiutl Indians
Date: 1924 Aug. 16

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1901 Feb. 22
Identifier(s): text:64951
Description: Took a trip to Dzawada̱ʼenuxw and tE!naxdox, "got lots of old things and stories.... I learnt that there is still more different kinds of dances that you and I don't know anything about. Now there is the Hamaste!kalał and the K!enk!o dance...." Tried to get some masks but too expensive. Sending 105 pages of stories "from different tribe". Will send L!eslagelas story in next mail. Going to Kingcome where "one Indian told me that he knows where this is one cave and that it has lots of masks and things in it and he wants $20 for it." Will go to HegEms where "I was told there is still another cave one of them belong to the [Dzawada̱ʼenuxw ] tribe and the other to the [Gwawaʼenuxw̱ ]." Saw some legełdox, may go see them after visit to these caves, then to caves up Knights Inlet, then to mummies at whalers grave. Lists several items bought: dishes, four poles, described in detail.
Creator: Hunt, George
Source: Franz Boas Papers (Mss.B.B61); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B61-ead.xml
Subject: Kwakwaka'wakw; Kwakiutl Indians; Da'naxda'xw; Dzawada'enuxw; Gwawa'enuxw; Lekwiltok
Date: 1901 Feb. 22

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1928 Nov. 30
Identifier(s): text:66331
Description: Sending pages 4327-4357 answering questions recently sent. Previous writing about L!ałEyegElis (Hunt's wife) was in her own words. Wrote 9 pages about clover roots then stopped when recent letter was received.
Creator: Hunt, George
Source: Franz Boas Papers (Mss.B.B61); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B61-ead.xml
Subject: Kwakwaka'wakw; Kwakiutl Indians; Nak'waxda'xw
Date: 1928 Nov. 30

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1908 Nov. 23
Identifier(s): text:65116
Description: Worried about having not heard from Boas for a while. "You are the only living friend I have in this wide world." Sending 39 pages about perch trapping.
Creator: Hunt, George
Source: Franz Boas Papers (Mss.B.B61); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B61-ead.xml
Subject: Kwakwaka'wakw; Kwakiutl Indians
Date: 1908 Nov. 23

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1906 Aug. 23
Identifier(s): text:65027
Description: Received letter of June 15. Is satisfied with answers about payment. Went to Dzawadi, Dzawada̱ʼenuxw , and 'Nak'waxda'xw , but all the people were away. Found some old people at Nahwitti and made a small collection. Then went to Rivers Inlet and found many different tribes working in the canneries. Bought old stones at head of Inlet. Sending specimen list. Did not buy masks as they were all new and made with blue paint. Describes details of winter dance seen while there. Could not obtain those 22 masks, as law is that they be burned after being shown four times. Asks if Boas would like someone to make a new set of those 22 masks. Sending "true story of nEnwakawe" which was told in the winter dance an old Wuikinuxv person. Sending two love songs. Gives brief detail on murder case for which son was called as witness.
Creator: Hunt, George
Source: Franz Boas Papers (Mss.B.B61); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B61-ead.xml
Subject: Kwakwaka'wakw; Kwakiutl Indians; Dzawada'enuxw; Awa'etłala; Nak'waxda'xw; Wuikinuxv; Oowekeeno Indians
Date: 1906 Aug. 23

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1919 Apr. 4
Identifier(s): text:65618
Description: Received 2 maps of Knight Inlet and have put place names on them. Found there are no clover beds there. Learned that the A̱wa̱ʼetła̱la and Da̱ʼnaxdaʼx̱w have wild cherry tree beds and goat hunting mountains for each nEmemot. Wife said that is similar for the 'Nak'waxda'x̱w. There was high costs to getting all the information, including that on olachen traps. Sent pages 1353-1360 on March 30. Sending pages 1361-1382, with Knight Inlet names and answers to questions.
Creator: Hunt, George
Source: Franz Boas Papers (Mss.B.B61); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B61-ead.xml
Subject: Kwakwaka'wakw; Kwakiutl Indians; Awa'etłala; Da'naxda'xw; Nak'waxda'xw
Date: 1919 Apr. 4

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1929 May 28
Identifier(s): text:66373
Description: Received letter of March 20 and April 29. Sending papers sent for review, adding "words we don't use." Will write next about salmon story of the ʼNa̱mǥis. Not feeling well lately.
Creator: Hunt, George
Source: Franz Boas Papers (Mss.B.B61); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B61-ead.xml
Subject: Kwakwaka'wakw; Kwakiutl Indians; Namgis
Date: 1929 May 28

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1901 Jan. 27
Identifier(s): text:64946
Description: Sending 50 pages. "Now I have got some of the stuff here Alert Bay which i bought from the Ḵwikwa̱sutinux̱ tribe yet I want to send them altogether on or about next mail. Now I bought that Howka from NEmogwises House... altogether it is 24 1/2 feet long." Also got "the gElwage tsEtakk!ek... it is a naked woman image of chief nakap!EkEms song against the chief made by fast womens"
Creator: Hunt, George
Source: Franz Boas Papers (Mss.B.B61); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B61-ead.xml
Subject: Kwakwaka'wakw; Kwakiutl Indians; Kwikwasutinuxw; Namgis
Date: 1901 Jan. 27

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1912 Apr. 9
Identifier(s): text:65215
Description: Sending 106 pages on different nEmemot and marriages. Gives detailed info in letter on names and relations. Requests money to pay informants for telling stories.
Creator: Hunt, George
Source: Franz Boas Papers (Mss.B.B61); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B61-ead.xml
Subject: Kwakwaka'wakw; Kwakiutl Indians
Date: 1912 Apr. 9

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1921 Jan. 14
Identifier(s): text:65840
Description: Sending pages 1939-1950 "of the pictures and story and songs which I copied out of the book." Notes that spelling mistakes were made by others who confused the right letters and diacritical marks.
Creator: Hunt, George
Source: Franz Boas Papers (Mss.B.B61); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B61-ead.xml
Subject: Kwakwaka'wakw; Kwakiutl Indians
Date: 1921 Jan. 14