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Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1932 Mar. 9
Identifier(s): text:66456
Description: "I have not heard from you for such a long time I am wondering how you are. The last time you wrote you said you had been ill so I have felt worried about you. Please let me know how you are getting on."
Creator: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
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: 1932 Mar. 9

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1909 May 21
Identifier(s): text:65199
Description: Sorry to hear of recent sickness. Requests sending of Mr. Heye's collection soon.
Creator: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
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: 1909 May 21

Title: Diary of field work, 1890 [English translation]
Identifier(s): text:159547
Description: English translation of Franz Boas' diary of letters written to his parents during his fieldwork trip to Oregon and Washington, June 9 to July 20, 1890.
Creator: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942; Yampolsky, Helene
Source: Franz Boas Professional Papers (Mss.B.B61p); https://search.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B61p-ead.xml
Subject: Chehalis Indians; Tillamook Indians
Date: 1890

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1900 Feb. 24
Identifier(s): text:64871
Description: Received letter with pages about weather charms. (Letter not located at APS.) "I was very glad to hear about the masks, and also that the matter in regard to the seat has been cleared up." Asks for more info about charms for curing sickness, obtaining love, success in hunting, and harming one's enemies. Will be in British Columbia in the summer. Planning to be with Hunt for about two months.
Creator: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942; 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: 1900 Feb. 24

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1900 Jan. 27
Identifier(s): text:64914
Description: Totem poles from Nahwitti arrived but only one plank. Asks if 3 planks were sent from Alert Bay. Hopes that next writings sent will be about medicines.
Creator: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942; 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; Tłatłasikwala; Nahwitti
Date: 1900 Jan. 27

Title: Inuktitut texts
Identifier(s): text:159923
Description: Primarily consists of untranslated stories and other language material in Inuktitut syllabics. Pages 1-2: Handwritten guide to Inuktitut syllabics. Pages 3-5: Texts in Inuktitut (syllabic and Romanized). Page 6: "Song of the first Inuit." Page 7: "Story of how children were first obtained." Page 8: "Before the Inuits had their Goddess," "Story of the Fox and Crow," and "Story of how the Inuit Goddess originated" (continued on to page 9.) Page 10: "Story of the woman who would not take a man for a husband but later took a bird and to live with it; also origin of seal and walrus." Page 11: "Story of one of the cardinal sins and its consequences; the woman Namniuock." Page 12: "Story of a boy who was whipped by his foster father who later endeavored to destroy the boy; later the boy became a star and looks after the white people." Pages 12-16: Additional untitled stories. Pages 18-19: "Labrador riddles" and word/phrase list (in Boas’s hand, Inuktitut and English). Pages 20-30: Stories from Hamilton Inlet in romanized Inuktitut. Pages 31-32: Text by Boas in German shorthand. Pages 33-34: Text in Boas's from Hamilton Inlet, Labrador. Pages 35-36: Unidentified Inuktitut text in syllabics and roman alphabet.; ACLS collection, item E1a.1
Creator: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942; Thalbitzer, William, 1873-1958
Subject: Inuit
Date: Undated

Title: Kwakiutl dictionary
Identifier(s): text:166522
Description: Kwak'wala-English dictionary, organized alphabetically according to writing system developed by Franz Boas and George Hunt. Many entries provide references to page and line numbers in Boas's published Kwakiutl volumes where the given term appears. Edited by Boas's daughter Helene Yampolsky in 1948 from Boas's original work, itself based extensively upon Kwak'wala materials recorded by George Hunt from numerous Kwakwaka'wakw speakers and knowledge keepers from the 1890s to the 1930s.
Creator: Yampolsky, Helene; Boas, Franz, 1858-1942; Hunt, George
Source: American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society (Mss.497.3.B63c); http://www.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.3.B63c-ead.xml
Subject: Kwakwaka'wakw; Kwakiutl language; Kwakiutl Indians
Date: 1948