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Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1928 Mar. 7
Identifier(s): text:66231
Description: Received letter of February 28 and pages 3915-3923, and vocabulary pages 201-300. Asks for more writing of ordinary conversations in question and answer form. Sending a check.
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: 1928 Mar. 7

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1900 Oct. 25
Identifier(s): text:65018
Description: Received invoice for collection. Looks like items from G̱usgimukw are "very nice."
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; Gusgimukw
Date: 1900 Oct. 25

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1926 Feb. 9
Identifier(s): text:66075
Description: Sending a few lines from the end of a Rivers Inlet story of the children of Noaquas that he cannot translate fully. Glad to have received names of the Kwakiutl nEmemot from last winter. Asks for names of all the different officers for different roles in the winter dances and how those roles are inherited. Asks for description of marriages among the Gisxstala.
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; Tsimshian Indians; Oowekeeno Indians; Wuikinuxv
Date: 1926 Feb. 9

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1926 Nov. 30
Identifier(s): text:66168
Description: Received letter of November 21 and pages 3468-3482. Received 3444- 3467 earlier. Enclosed sheet has different names from different accounts of first assembling of winter cermonial. Encloses speeches from story of winter dance from 1895. "Will you do me the favor to tell me how I must put it so that it does not look as though the reports did not agree." Cannot find any information in the winter dance descriptions about the Hawinalal.
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; Kwagu'ł
Date: 1926 Nov. 30

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1926 May 10
Identifier(s): text:66064
Description: Received pages 3258-3275 about horse clams. Wishes that Hunt had more time for writing as they are both getting old. Asks what becomes of bax'une after death. Will send more words that are unclear. Asks Hunt to use single page numbering system from now on, starting from 3275. Asks if Odzestalis could give a full account of Bella Bella marriage procedure that they were unable to get in full.
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; Heiltsuk Indians
Date: 1926 May 10

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1933 Feb. 20
Identifier(s): text:66446
Description: Thanks for sending Dan Cranmer's address. Sending a photograph taken in Chicago (during World's Fair?) of Tom Hemisila.
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: 1933 Feb. 20

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1907 Mar. 22
Identifier(s): text:65108
Description: Received letter of March 10. Mr. Heye very interested in obtaining the Hamsp!ek. Confused about why it has been difficult for Hunt to get the money. Sending check, pending receiving a reply to other letters and statement of accounts.
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: 1907 Mar. 22

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1931 Apr. 22
Identifier(s): text:66398
Description: Received letter of April 14. Dick Price's totem poles are still held up in customs. Received pages 4913-4959.
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: 1931 Apr. 22

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1920 Mar. 10
Identifier(s): text:65779
Description: Received pages 1718-1730. Asks follow-up questions about name-keepers. Also glad to have received information on Sparrow Society. Asks additional questions about it. Would like to identify plant known as qot!xole. Asks Hunt to send plant and seeds. Asks if the Kwakiutl, like the Tsimshian and Haida (according to Boas), raised and used tobacco before Europeans came. Notes that there is a pipe bowl among the items Hunt collected.
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; Haida Indians; Tsimshian Indians
Date: 1920 Mar. 10

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1926 Jan. 8
Identifier(s): text:66073
Description: Asks if there are any chipped implements made of flint, obsidian, or other hard stone for making arrow points or lance points. Asks if Kwakiutl decorate rims of cedar bark mats with dyed strips in the manner of the Nootka. Asks how this is done, if so. Asks if women's spruce root hats are woven and if the patterns have names. Describes differences between old and new Nootka hats. Wonders if old style of hat was used by the Kwakiutl.
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; Nuu-chah-nulth; Nootka Indians
Date: 1926 Jan. 8

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1921 Dec. 5
Identifier(s): text:65859
Description: Asks for story that belongs to the copper, how it got to Alert Bay, how it was bought and sold.
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; Kwagu'ł; Tlingit Indians
Date: 1921 Dec. 5

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1919 Apr. 24
Identifier(s): text:65601
Description: Received corrections of pages sent. Still unsure on some details. Sending list of words beginning with L.
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: 1919 Apr. 24

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1908 Mar. 27
Identifier(s): text:65106
Description: Still expecting manuscript on cooking and photographs. Concerned that work has been going slowly for last year or two.
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: 1908 Mar. 27

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1907 Feb. 14
Identifier(s): text:65122
Description: Wrote to Mr. Heye and received letter back that the missing check has been cancelled. Sending with this letter a new check. Heye requests first collection be sent without waiting for second one to be made.
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: 1907 Feb. 14

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1902 June 7
Identifier(s): text:65023
Description: List of expenditures.
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; Dzawada'enuxw
Date: 1902 June 2

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1931 May 5
Identifier(s): text:66401
Description: Dick Price's totem poles arrived. Received pages 4960-4993.
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: 1931 May 5

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1918 July 27
Identifier(s): text:65541
Description: Discusses vouchers and payments. Asked friend in Ottawa (Sapir?) to help clear up matter with postmaster general in Vancouver. Received $300 in funding to continue work with Hunt. Would like to get more names of clover garden beds, olachen fishing spots, and similar information at Knight Inlet and elsewhere.
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: 1918 July 27

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1920 Jan. 2
Identifier(s): text:65716
Description: Received pages 1581-1619. Asks question about the word for "twelve." Asks for more information on Hunt's wife's uncle, Qasnomalas, his relations, and their brother tribes. Thanks Hunt for sending photo of his wife, taken by Curtis.
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: 1920 Jan. 2

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1916 Sept. 27
Identifier(s): text:65274
Description: Received the shamans' songs and painting to accompany stories. Asks for the writing down of the Gwaʼsa̱la wailing song be sent in increments so that the currently alloted funds available for paying Hunt can be used before they run out in July 1917. Asks for Hunt to write down sayings similar to sayings in English.
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; Gwa'sala
Date: 1916 Sept. 27

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1928 May 22
Identifier(s): text:66253
Description: Very busy lately so have been unable to reply. Received pages through 4049. Asks for more stories about instructions to children, education of children, how girls learn to make basketry, preservation of fish and berries, how boys are taught fishing and hunting, making of tools and painting and carving. Do not need more about fishing and hunting and how food is preserved as that has already been written down. Asks also for information on how a woman helps in the managing the property of her husband and her own. "You also never stated whether women who have not a man's place may take place in the potlatch."
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: 1928 May 22