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Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1922 Feb. 6
Identifier(s): text:65937
Description: Received letter of January 18. Sending pages 2305-2343, which includes "true story" of Nuu-chah-nulth whalers' shrine, told by a Nuu-chah-nulth woman, a Wuikinuxv dzonoq!wa story told by omxet, and more on how Hunt came to know shaman's secrets. Can come to Victoria to see Boas. Gives estimated expenses. "I would be a happy old man to see you once more Dear Friend."
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; Wuikinuxv; Oowekeeno Indians; Nuu-chah-nulth; Nootka Indians
Date: 1922 Feb. 6

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1929 May. 17
Identifier(s): text:66300
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: 1929 Mar. 17

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1907 Mar. 12
Identifier(s): text:65104
Description: Received letter of February 14 and check for $250. Will pack up collection and bring it to Port Hardy for shipping, which includes carved hunting bones and warrior bones. Will next take a trip to Dzawada̱ʼenuxw or Lewkiltok to make next collection for Heye.
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; Lekwiltok
Date: 1907 Mar. 12

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1918 Feb. 28
Identifier(s): text:65431
Description: Receipt for trip to Kalugwes.
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
Date: 1918 Feb. 28

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1918 Apr. 1
Identifier(s): text:65481
Description: Sending 14 pages of a G̱usgimukw dog story. Beginning to write Wuikinuxv 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; Wuikinuxv; Oowekeeno Indians
Date: 1918 Apr. 1

Title: "Another way [of] counting men of the Kwagu'ł and the long and short name of the nEmemot"
Identifier(s): text:160094
Creator: Hunt, George
Subject: Indians of North America--British Columbia; Kwakiutl Indians; Kwakwaka'wakw
Date: 1920

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1908 Oct. 27
Identifier(s): text:65125
Description: Sending 122 pages on hair seal hunting, whales, octopus, sea slugs, sea eggs, etc., and how they are caught and cooked.
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 Oct. 27

Title: George Hunt to Franz Boas, February 21, 1929
Identifier(s): text:144897
Description: Received letter of January 30. Sending pages 4486-4516 and two pages sent for review. Answers question on spelling with examples of differences of meaning based on spelling in order to demonstrate that these differences are not spelling mistakes.; This letter is page 97 in the ACLS Collection's section W1b.5, "Bella Bella texts."
Creator: 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 Indians; Heiltsuk Indians
Date: 1929-02-21

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1911 July 25
Identifier(s): text:65208
Description: Wrote about Kwagu'ł names and their high eagle seats, about MaxmEwesagEme of Dzawada̱ʼenuxw who married a Heiltsuk woman, son married Mama̱liliḵa̱la, and daughter married Kwexa, and son married 'Na̱mǥis. Discusses how names and seats are given out.
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; Mamalilikala; Namgis; Heiltsuk Indians; Haisla Indians
Date: 1911 July 25

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1916 Nov. 7
Identifier(s): text:65280
Description: Received letter of October 17. Will try to get old friends together to answer questions. About this, says "I think that there is something of that kind in the two chiefs fighting talk to each other, and in the friendly talking to each other about someone else who was doing well. But this man who was doing well lost all he have made in short time." Sending 101 pages of Gwaʼsa̱la woman's wailing song. Sending in bottles samples of the berries called tE!mts!a, kotE!xole, kEk!aale, and q!esena.
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; Gwa'sala
Date: 1916 Nov. 7

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1921 Feb. 24
Identifier(s): text:65834
Description: Received letter of January 24 and February 1. Sending pages 2016-2032 on dreams of men and women. Will write about pExala when people at Blunden Harbour return. David is very sick and may not recover.
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: 1921 Feb. 24

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1897 Mar. 25
Identifier(s): text:64807
Description: Glad to hear Boas is coming. Discussing arrangements for boarding and for travel to Bella Coola.
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: 1897 Mar. 25

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1923 Dec. 30
Identifier(s): text:66013
Description: Sending pages 2786-2796 of L!asutewales story, 2797-2814 of gengEnanămes story, and 2815-2816 of how the kwekw was first made. Notices many mistakes of spelling in omaxtā!laLE story in "thumb book" (The Social Organization and Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians) and "most of the others." Thinks he can get all the Heiltsuk stories from Odzestales.
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; Heiltsuk Indians
Date: 1923 Dec. 30

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1905 July 8
Identifier(s): text:65039
Description: List of objects sent to Boas. Object names given in Kwak'wala only.
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: 1905 July 8

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1907 Jan. 23
Identifier(s): text:65109
Description: Still have not received $250 check. Letters from Boas go on steamer to Prince Rupert first, then to Victoria, then up to Port Hardy, taking a month to arrive. Sending 47 pages on clam drying and cooking and 3 pages of feasting song belonging to yEXagEme. Gives brief background on it. Sending two of Dr. Newcombe's letters to show that he (Hunt) is not working for anyone but Boas, "unless the pay gets too low."
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: 1907 Jan. 23

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1922 June 7
Identifier(s): text:65917
Description: Received letter of May 8. Now willing to write about "secrets of the pretend shamans" and his own knowledge of this. Says that no other white man will get one of these secrets, and explains that people get well because of faith in the shaman.
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 June 7

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1927 Oct. 22
Identifier(s): text:66141
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: 1927 Oct. 22

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1906 Apr. 27
Identifier(s): text:65037
Description: Received letter of March 15 and 26, including book on fishes. Cannot work right now, as recently received a subpoena to appear in Vancouver court on May 1 as witness. Sending info about p!asElał house "when it was full of people in 1870." Only one man living there now. Gives additional details on his wives.
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: 1906 Apr. 27

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1910 Apr. 28
Identifier(s): text:65209
Description: Sending 65 pages on different kinds of roots and how they are cooked. Has been away to 'Nak'waxda'xw̱ country to look for painted coffin, which he found in a cave. Will send it to Mr. Heye. Still working on getting LE!gwen canoe.
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: 1910 Apr. 28

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1927 Aug. 7
Identifier(s): text:66137
Description: Received letter of Augsut 3 from Portland. Will meet in Victoria at end of month.
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: 1927 Aug. 7