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Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1919 Mar. 10
Identifier(s): text:65628
Description: Received letter of February 20 and 26. Sent pages 1234-1241 with L!esElagela story on January 17. Suggests that Boas send more information in the language for review and correction to clarify different ways of speaking. Explains more about protocols for responding when a man is killed. Knows a Da̱ʼnaxdaʼx̱w man who can provide names for Knight Inlet map. Has pressed plants. Explains origin of clover root beds and how they are made by women and handed down. David and his daughter are quite sick. Sending pages 1321-1328 of G̱usgimukw star story, pressed plants, and their names.
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; Da'naxda'xw
Date: 1919 Mar. 10

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1919 Nov. 27
Identifier(s): text:65729
Description: Received letter of November 5. Sending pages 1563-1570 on Kwaguʼł sham marriages, and 1571-1580 on how a chief must give away property. Will work on new questions with help from an old man.
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
Date: 1919 Nov. 27

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1895 Apr. 23
Identifier(s): text:64806
Description: Acknowledging receipt of check.
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: 1895 Apr. 23

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: 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