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Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1926 June 30
Identifier(s): text:66068
Description: Received 20 pages on Bella Bella marriage.
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: Heiltsuk Indians
Date: 1926 June 30

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1923 May 31
Identifier(s): text:65946
Description: Received letter of May 22. Will go with Boas to Bella Bella. Suggests payment rate.
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; Heiltsuk Indians
Date: 1923 May 31

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1924 Feb. 12
Identifier(s): text:66011
Description: Sending L!asotiwalis story off to printer. Needs Hunt to finish the rest of it. Awaiting word form Newcombe regarding map.
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: 1924 Feb. 12

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1923 May 28
Identifier(s): text:65934
Description: Resending plan to visit Bella Bella. Will send 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; Heiltsuk Indians
Date: 1923 May 28

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1924 Dec. 10
Identifier(s): text:66043
Description: Received letter of November 11 and 13. Saddened to hear of Boas' daughter's passing. Brother-in-law D. Wilson also recently passed away, as did sister Mrs. A. S. Spencer. Has not received check mentioned. Will write about the bear shortly and get stories from Odzestales, who would like to be paid for them. Sending sketch of house and half of a front of "the oldest house."
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; Heiltsuk Indians
Date: 1924 Dec. 10

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1923 Oct. 8
Identifier(s): text:65924
Description: Hopes Hunt received latest plans for him to go to Bella Bella before Boas. Discusses travel plans and payment.
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: 1923 Oct. 8

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1904 Dec. 20
Identifier(s): text:65033
Description: Sending 33 pages on salmon cooking, Heiltsuk translations of "words you wanted to know."
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; Heiltsuk Indians
Date: 1904 Dec. 20

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1924 Feb. 15
Identifier(s): text:66004
Description: Received letter of January 11. Has been working for Sapir to collect stories on all the coppers that Indians were recently arrested for potlatching with. The "thumb book" is "The Social Organization and Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians." Will write about the Eagles of other tribes. Heiltsuk stories appear to have not been told completely. Versions told by Odzestales have more details, such as star story. Sending pages 2846-2857 of L!asutewales story, and 2858-2865 of star 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; Heiltsuk Indians
Date: 1924 Feb. 15

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1924 Nov. 11
Identifier(s): text:66048
Description: Received material recently sent. Notes misunderstanding in that only English words were corrected and not spelling of Indian words. Proposes paying 20 cents per sheets of words corrected. Asks if there is any "reverence paid to the bear." Would like to obtain more Bella Bella stories from Odzestalis. Asks specifically about children of Ts!umqalaqs and their relation to the winter dance.
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: 1924 Nov. 11

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1927 Oct. 19
Identifier(s): text:66164
Description: Sending pages 3861-3878 about story of the horned owl, bird souls of men, prayer of young mother for her first child after it died, and dog story of the Heiltsuk told by 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; Heiltsuk Indians
Date: 1927 Oct. 19

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. 1926 May 25
Identifier(s): text:66094
Description: Received letter of May 10. Sending pages 3276-3301 about "old time qotexa with gesExslāla as canoes tied together." Will ask Odzestales about Bella Bella marriages. Will try to find out information about souls. Also sending photograph of clams tied together on string, or k!omats!.
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; Heiltsuk Indians
Date: 1926 May 25

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: To Boas. 1923 Sept. 7
Identifier(s): text:65918
Description: Received letter of July 12. Did not write much recently as many people have smallpox. Can go to Bella Bella any time. Has only been writing about rules for head chief. Can write down stories at Bella Bella in Heiltsuk.
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; Heiltsuk Indians
Date: 1923 Sept. 7

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1924 Jan. 11
Identifier(s): text:66018
Description: Asks what Hunt means in referring to "thumb book." Would like more information on Eagles, such as who they are now, how they inherited the role. Advises that Bella Bella any stories from Odzestales should be written in English, not Kwak'wala.
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; Heiltsuk Indians
Date: 1924 Jan. 11

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1911 Nov. 19
Identifier(s): text:65211
Description: Gives info on name of recent hamatsa dancer, LaLaleL!as Baxwas, including hamatsa name, and Heiltsuk name given afterwards. First Fort Rupert hamatsa in 22 years.
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: 1911 Nov. 19

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1927 May 5
Identifier(s): text:66170
Description: Received letter of February 25. Was away hunting and trapping. On April 26, sent pages 3579-3618. Sending now pages 3619-3632 about "kwākwāk!om of gwetEla q!āp!okw or assembling about all the speeches and secret song that belong to it." Also includes info on different names of winter dancing houses. Sending different names of cedar bark mat braiding and explanation of word "qotExa" as used by the Heiltsuk and Kwaguʼł.
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: 1927 May 5

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. 1926 June 15
Identifier(s): text:66082
Description: Sending 3302-3322 about Bella Bella marriages, told by Odzestales. Will write next about q!āp!ekw of the winter dance, as told by Ḷābeł of the LaElaxsEndāyo nEmemot of the Kwaguʼł. Story was kept strictly secret by previous holder of position.
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: 1926 June 15

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1925 Feb. 10
Identifier(s): text:66070
Description: Received letter and story of January 15. Hopes Hunt is getting Bella Bella stories from Odzestales. Willing to pay him for them. Asks for songs sung by a crew in a canoe keeping time to the paddling. Asks if such songs exists, or similar ones for raising a house beams, hauling lines, etc. Asks for the order of names among the four Kwaguʼł tribes, arranged according to nEmemot.
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; Mamalilikala; Heiltsuk Indians
Date: 1925 Feb. 10