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Title: VII(22B1) Origin of carved house posts
Identifier(s): text:184811
Description: Extract copied from Katherine Judson's "Myths and Legends of British North America."
Creator: Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950et al
Subject: Haida Indians
Date: 1917

Title: Haida texts
Identifier(s): text:156843
Description: Typescript versions of original Haida language texts obtained from Masset and Skidegate Haida, 1900-1902. Two texts have interlinear translation. Reference numbers refer to printed abstracts of Masset texts. Marginal comments by Franz Boas and Theresa M. Durlach.; Item N1.4
Creator: Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958
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: Haida language; Haida Indians
Date: 1900-1902

Title: Notes on the composition of the verbal complex in Haida
Identifier(s): text:169596
Description: A critical reworking of a portion of Swanton's "Haida" article in Handbook of American Indian Languages, 1911.
Creator: Haeberlin, Herman Karl, 1890-1918
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: Haida Indians; Haida language
Date: circa 1915

Title: Haida texts
Identifier(s): text:144498
Description: Haida stories recorded in 1900-1901 in the Skidegate dialect. These are typescripts of the original Haida versions of the stories appearing in translation in Swanton’s, 1905. There are marginal page and line references to the printed translations, probably made by Theresa M. Durlach, who cites these numbers in her work (1928).; ACLS Item N1.5
Creator: Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958
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: Haida language; Haida Indians
Date: 1900-1901

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1920 July 23
Identifier(s): text:65813
Description: Received pages on tobacco and smoking. Notes that Haida grew tobacco and chewed it. Asks if Kwagu'ł have done this.
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; Haida Indians
Date: 1920 July 23

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1921 Dec. 5
Identifier(s): text:65954
Description: Received letter of November 14. Dr. Newcombe and Charles Nowell made mistake in the story of the copper sent earlier. Gives background story involving gelgon and his son, and two Haida men not killed as wife of Mr. Moffat in charge of Fort Rupert was half-Haida. Asks if pages were received. Cannot find anyone with information on eclipses yet. Encloses signatures of old men as witnesses about the copper 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; Kwagu'ł; Haida Indians
Date: 1921 Dec. 5

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1931 July 13
Identifier(s): text:66408
Description: Received letter of June 30 with pages 5047-5056. Asks if Kwakiutl use charms to ward off bad luck in the manner of the Haida or Tsimshian. Gives example of use of dried navel string.
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: 1931 July 13

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: To Boas. 1920 Aug. 2
Identifier(s): text:65794
Description: Received letter of July 22 and 23. Sending pages 1873-1876, the last of L!ałayegEles story. Gives long recollection of going north to Tlingit country as a child in 1863 with his mother to see her father and tells what he remembers of tobacco. Also tells of recollection of growing of potatoes among Haida and Tlingit, and attempt to grow it at Fort Rupert by a Scotsman named Thomas Manrow. Also tells of grandfather going to Hawaii around 1830 and coming back with abalone shells and tobacco.
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; Haida Indians; Tsimshian Indians
Date: 1920 Aug. 2

Title: Haida Love Song
Identifier(s): audio:7016; APSdigrec_1081; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 10
Description: "Maggy Harry explains in Tlingit that the song was purchased in Kasaan, from a Haida man named q'ackwe, by B.A. Jack, and Maggy's husband, tcAna-ic, in 1900. 'It's pretty fast.'"
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Love songs; Haida Indians--Music
Date: 1954-05-27

Title: Jimmy Jackson's Love Song, 1904
Identifier(s): audio:7043; APSdigrec_1080; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 09
Description: "Maggy Harry introduces the song in Tlingit. It was composed in 1904, by her uncle, Jimmy Jackson, when his wife, Susie Davis, left him, and his sister-in-law offered to be his girl friend.... This is not addressed to any sib -yAtx'i. It is supposed to sound like the sawmill in which Jimmy Jackson was working at the time. However, it is supposed to be of Haida type, like the conventional songs addressed to sib-yAtx'i."
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Love songs; Haida Indians--Music
Date: 1954-05-27

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1921 Dec. 4
Identifier(s): text:65829
Description: Received letter of November 14. Read the Nowell story on the copper to "oldest men of Fort Rupert." The men laughed at the story, said it was wrong. Gives extensive story on background of price of the copper and how it inflated through being resold. Gives fuller background story of the copper and its meaning, and relation to his mother. Suggest Boas get the history of the Seattle totem pole to get "all the different storys" of what's on the copper. Hunt was asked to write it out with his mother after they put it up there. Gives detailed story of mother 's coming to Fort Rupert in 1850. Tells another detailed story of another copper made in secret by a Haida man hired by k!âde, and how k!âde sold it in 1873 in Victoria. This copper now owned by a Dzawada̱ʼenux̱w chief. Gives very detailed background on k!âde and his relations. Includes names of 5 signed witnesses who gave this background story. Ends with 2 full-page sketches of each copper, probably sent with letter of December 14.; Contains the image Māmō'gwelēlā
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; Haida Indians; Tlingit Indians; Tsimshian Indians; Coast Salish Indians; Saanich; Ma'amtagila; Ławit'sis; Namgis; Dzawada̱'enux̱w
Date: 1921 Dec. 4

Title: Diary of field work, 1886 [English translation]
Identifier(s): text:159566
Description: English translation of Franz Boas' diary of letters written to his parents during his fieldwork trip to British Columbia from September 18 to December 16, 1886.
Creator: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942et al
Subject: Kwakwaka'wakw; Kwakiutl Indians; Haida Indians; Oowekeeno Indians; Nuxalk Indians; Cowichan Indians; Wuikinuxv; Coast Salish Indians; Lekwungen Indians; Stó:lō Indians; Comox Indians; Pentlatch Indians; Grave robbing; Human remains (Archaeology)
Date: 1886

Title: Diary of field work, 1888 [English translation]
Identifier(s): text:159565
Description: English translation of Franz Boas' diary of letters written to his parents during his fieldwork trip to British Columbia, May 27 to July 24, 1888.
Creator: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942et al; Yampolsky, Heleneet al
Subject: Kootenai Indians; Ntlakyapamuk Indians; Nlaka'pamux; Haida Indians; Tlingit Indians; Coast Salish Indians; Kwakwaka'wakw; Kwakiutl Indians; Heiltsuk Indians; Tlingit Indians; Lekwungen Indians; Grave robbing; Human remains (Archaeology); Tahltan Indians; Cowichan Indians
Date: 1888

Title: Field report, British Columbia, 1889 [Translation]
Identifier(s): text:167201
Creator: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Source: Franz Boas Professional Papers (Mss.B.B61p); https://search.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B61p-ead.xml
Subject: Kwakwaka'wakw; Kwakiutl Indians; Tlingit Indians; Haida Indians; Tsimshian Indians; Coast Salish Indians; Nootka Indians; Nuu-chah-nulth people; Heiltsuk Indians; Gitxsan Indians; Niska Indians; Oowekeeno Indians; Wuikinuxv; Kalispel Indians; Interior Salish Indians; Shuswap Indians; Secwepemc people; Nuxalk Indians; Indians of North America--British Columbia
Date: 1889-06-01