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Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1906 July 10
Identifier(s): text:65036
Description: Received letter of June 8 and $250. Will set out for Dzawada̱ʼenuxw village. People may be away at Rivers Inlet cannery. If so, will go to Gwaʼsa̱la village, as they have not collected anything from there yet. Will proceed with work in manner requested.
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; Gwa'sala
Date: 1906 July 10

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1923 Apr. 17
Identifier(s): text:65927
Description: Received letter of April 4. Gives term for "foremost chief." Sending pages 2585-2616. Discusses more about people arrested for potlatching.
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: 1923 Apr. 17

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1918 Sept. 6
Identifier(s): text:65533
Description: Received letters of August 19 and 20. Now has 5 of the maps. Will return them in next mail. Still working on place names near Cape Scott and south of K'ómoks. Sending pages 1087-1105 about the different chiefs who own dzonoq!wa masks. Explains more about these chiefs.
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. 6

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1933 Feb. 7
Identifier(s): text:66478
Description: Will try to write out the Tłatła̱siḵwaḻa songs. Sending pages 5521-5565.
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; Tłatłasikwala
Date: 1933 Feb. 7

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1916 Oct. 17
Identifier(s): text:65272
Description: Received letter of October 4. Will try to send some seeds of the q!esena. Tells more about the kinds of places where q!esena grows best.
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: 1916 Oct. 17

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1919 Aug. 31
Identifier(s): text:65721
Description: Sending pages 1489-1504 about prayer for a copper and how it is fed. Recalls seeing this done in the past. Not seen today, nor copper holding box. Sent sketch of one of them and sketch of how salmon is dried by the 'Nak'waxda'x̱w. Working on census on Fort Rupert from 1866.
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; Nak'waxda'xw
Date: 1919 Aug. 31

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1926 Mar. 13
Identifier(s): text:66090
Description: Sending pages 3238-3257 on cooking and preservation of clams for winter food, plus 2 pages from 1924 sent for translation that were just received. Will write next about horse clams.
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: 1926 Mar. 13

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1913 Apr. 19
Identifier(s): text:65230
Description: Received letter of April 4. Will write about how senL!Em went and took a wife who was half K'ómoks from the Lekwiltok. Gives names of her parents. Cannot send medicinal plant as they are not yet in bloom.
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 Apr. 19

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1923 Feb. 22
Identifier(s): text:65944
Description: Received letter of February 10. Just returned from long hunting trip, not profitable. Sending pages 2521-2551 on rules a chief must go through over time, using son of L!aguLas as example. Will write more on this. Will have to pay 50 cents per song to get songs. Notes likely mistake in translation of Nuu-chah-nulth song. Will get help of Nuu-chah-nulth women in Fort Rupert to translate. Sending "a copy of what these poor Indians wanted to say to the government about the potlatch," hoping it can be printed in a major newspaper.
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; Nuu-chah-nulth; Nootka Indians
Date: 1923 Feb. 22

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1924 Mar. 18
Identifier(s): text:66006
Description: Received letter of February 8 and 12, map sent by Newcombe and small one sent by Mr. Kermode. Odzestales translated the Rivers Inlet story recently. Hunt translated it in turn into Kwak'wala and English. Sending pages 2866-2882 with the last of the L!asutewales story, and pages 2883- 2894 of guwi story at nulu also told by Odzestales. Thankful for the work. Asks for reminder of what to work on next. Madełbe tribe came today to invite Kwagu'ł to a big potlatch. Indian agent allowed the chief to do this even though others are prohibited.
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; Oowekeeno Indians; Wuikinuxv; Ma'amtagila; Madiłbe
Date: 1924 Mar. 18

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1908 Nov. 4
Identifier(s): text:65112
Description: Sending a string plaited the way the indians do the hair seal gut. Sending 29 pages on barnacles and urchin cooking. Wondering if Boas is coming to Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition next year.
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. 4

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1917 Sept. 15
Identifier(s): text:65340
Description: Sending 42 pages on different brother tribes of the Kwagu'ł. Mentions details included, such as different names of head chiefs, dogs' names, and houses' names. This information was difficult to obtain. Says Boas will be first person to have the complete information. Describe purpose of dog for warding off curses and intruders. Many people away at canneries at present. Will work on waxap!alaso story next.
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: 1917 Sept. 15

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1919 May 9
Identifier(s): text:65711
Description: Received letter of April 24. Corrects and explains spellings of words used in questions from Boas on April 3. Gives multiple examples. Sending pages 1422-1436 about halibut fishing and prayers, and 11 pages sent for review. Asks if 30 pressed plants and map of Knight Inlet sent were received. Expresses thanks for the work.
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 May 9

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1920 Jan. 10
Identifier(s): text:65726
Description: Received letter of December 8. Asks Boas to set rate for payment for information on names. Sending pages 1620-1648 with story about Chief ÂwaxElagElis, 1649-1650 on different ways of counting, 1651-1659 on long and short names of nEmemots at Fort Rupert. Also includes stories of K!wāk!wābālās of a 'Nak'waxda'x̱w nEmemot whose first ancestor was a killer whale.
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; Nak'waxda'xw
Date: 1920 Jan. 10

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1918 Feb. 27
Identifier(s): text:65416
Description: Sending 61 pages of poor man story of the Elgwŭunwe and of the lâxsä of q!omunyâye, 15 pages on k!edeł, mudzeł, and oma, 3 pages of copy sent for review, and 37 pages on the soul. There were many questions to answer and much travelling was needed to answer them. Discusses overdue payments for large amount of work. Received letter of February 16. Will put names on chart when it arrives.
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 Feb. 27

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1898 Sept. 16
Identifier(s): text:64789
Description: Sent all the masks recently bought. Sent an additional 18 pages of stories. Will spend winter at Dzawada̱ʼenuxw̱ village collecting stories. Going to Tłatła̱siḵwaḻa to see if they will pulldown a house post. Info onHarlan Smith, where he has been, and the boat he hired.
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; Tłatłasikwala
Date: 1898 Sept. 16

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1898 Mar. 4
Identifier(s): text:64794
Description: Received letter of Feburary 17. Waiting for Kwagu'ł, Mama̱liliḵa̱la, and Ławitʼsis to finish winter dance. Will try to get good set of red cedar bark. Tells of going to Alert Bay recently where some people, including the "Halls School boys," were upset, some laughing, about Hunt "who is finding out all our Dances and then he goes and tells it to Dr. Boas." Boas publication on Hamatsa was in Mr. Spencer's store. Some in Alert Bay object to all this.
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; Ławit'sis; Namgis
Date: 1898 Mar. 4

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1921 Mar. 30
Identifier(s): text:65850
Description: Acknowledging receipt of payment for pages 1955-1968, 1984-2096.
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 Mar. 30

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1918 July 22
Identifier(s): text:65530
Description: Bill for trip to Kalugwis, trip to Nimkish River, and pages 951-1019.
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: 1918 July 22

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1906 Mar. 21
Identifier(s): text:65029
Description: Received letter of February 28 and March 6. Sending more info on YaxLEns house. Recently sent BaxwEs names, winter dance names, and other names. Has not seen "praying house" at Nootka, but has heard there is food hanging up and many "images," though the Indians there did not want to disclose how many there are. "But the owner said he would not sell it for less than four hundred dollars." There are 90 human skulls in it, a washing place for whalers. There is another shrine for sea otter hunters. Owner wants $300 for the skulls, and $100 for the sea otter hunters shrine. Hunt has been told that it is the only one of its kind. October is the best time to get it as people are back from fur seal hunting in the Bering Sea then.
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; Nootka Indians; Nuu-chah-nulth
Date: 1906 Mar. 21