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Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1910 Feb. 28
Identifier(s): text:65218
Description: Worried about long silence given recent illness. Wondering if anything happened to promised items from G̱usgimukw. Hopes that writing about cooking can be completed. Hoping to get detailed information on how all men and women are related in Fort Rupert, including the houses they live in, clans, etc.
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
Date: 1910 Feb. 28

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1926 Nov. 30
Identifier(s): text:66168
Description: Received letter of November 21 and pages 3468-3482. Received 3444- 3467 earlier. Enclosed sheet has different names from different accounts of first assembling of winter cermonial. Encloses speeches from story of winter dance from 1895. "Will you do me the favor to tell me how I must put it so that it does not look as though the reports did not agree." Cannot find any information in the winter dance descriptions about the Hawinalal.
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
Date: 1926 Nov. 30

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1918 Oct. 26
Identifier(s): text:65550
Description: Received letter of October 15 and 17. Does not have additional information on signs linked to the crying of the raven. Will work on information on stars. Sending 6 pages in English answering questions recently sent about marriages. Will write about the Sparrow Society. Also sending pages 1159-1166 on body steaming.
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: 1918 Oct. 26

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1906 Mar. 6
Identifier(s): text:65059
Description: Sent checks. Received description of people of YaxLEns house. Would like fuller information on relations to brother tribes. names, etc.
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
Date: 1906 Mar. 6

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1919 Aug. 20
Identifier(s): text:65714
Description: Received letter of July 26 and 30. Writing down how many people lived in Fort Rupert houses in 1866, and then will do so for present day. Will write down more prayers. Sending pages 1461-1488 on giving property or buying slave as marriage. Gives example of his own buying of yaxLEns name. Running a boat presently. Will have more time to write soon. Discusses plant needed by Boas.
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 Aug. 20

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1923 May 31
Identifier(s): text:65945
Description: Sending pages 2672-2701 on rules a chief must follow from birth to attaining full position. Writing now about marriage ceremonies rarely seen.
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: 1923 May 31

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. 1920 May 9
Identifier(s): text:65796
Description: Sending pages 1738-1774, with answers to questions, information about gwēsEmē and pExEme. Gives further background on the q!āp!ēkw of the gwētEla and noxnemes story at Kalugwis. Gives details and names relating to 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; Ławit'sis
Date: 1920 May 9

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1931 Nov. 10
Identifier(s): text:66474
Description: Received letter of October 29. Sorry to hear of health problems but hoping he has recovered. "It was just one of these attacks of weakness which we old people are exposed to every now and then." Sends thanks for sending the maps with names written in, though some of the handwritten words were hard to make out so is enclosing a typewritten list of those that were hard to make out as well as the maps. Asks to correct the mistakes and add translations of the place names. Asks about how AwaxElagelis is, if he is has recovered. Asks if the Governor has acted on any of the matters that Boas submitted to him on behalf of the Indians. "The last I had was a courteous letter without any statement as to what he had done."
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; Ma'amtagila
Date: 1931 Nov. 10

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1925 June 16
Identifier(s): text:66078
Description: Received list of seats of the Kwakiutl tribes and of Mamalilikula.
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
Date: 1925 June 16

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1918 June 27
Identifier(s): text:65536
Description: Received letter of June 10. Lists in the letter pages sent recently by Hunt in order to make sure he has everything. Mentions some points of confusion due to page numbering. Asks if particular animals or blind people in stories have a unique way of speaking. Gives example of Mink and the Dzonoq!wa. Asks for list of names of stars and constellations, or stories related to them, as the G̱usgimukw have many. Clarifies earlier question about animal stories.
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; Gusgimukw
Date: 1918 June 27

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1920 Dec. 15
Identifier(s): text:65828
Description: Sending pages 2014-2017 about a Kwaguʼł and G̱usgimukw tribe dream. Will have to go down to Nanaimo on the 21st of the month to be tried. A man stepped into one of his bear traps last April. Gives details of incident.
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; Gusgimukw
Date: 1920 Dec. 15

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1926 Dec. 17
Identifier(s): text:66156
Description: Receeived letter of November 30, December 6 and 8. Will try to get more suicide stories, including from Ḷābeł. Gives correction of name in story from Ḷābeł: êxp!āta should be êxp!āts!ā. (See letter To Boas, June 15, 1926.) Gives detailed information on q!apekw and winter dances. Sending pages 3527-3537 about Xuyalas.
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; Xuyalas
Date: 1926 Dec. 17

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1918 Oct. 17
Identifier(s): text:65532
Description: Asks detailed questions about different kinds of marriages. Asks detailed questions regarding family history from wailing of Gwaʼsa̱la woman and childrens' relation to parents' nEmemot. Also asks about Sparrow Society initiation. Asks about nature of names that can be taken by old chief when he gives up his name.
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; Gwa'sala
Date: 1918 Oct. 17

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1896 Feb. 15
Identifier(s): text:64808
Description: Went to G̱usgimukw to find out about winter dance. "Oh Mr. Boas what I have seen over there I will never see again for all the Dances was shown in the really old ways." Gives details. Will copy out account of it all from notes. Has sent 220 pages since last saw Boas. Will make up bill. Includes 24 pages on omaxdalalE and his songs, and "a letter with 6 pages to answer your questions that I send last month." "I copy some of your notes from the Dance of 1894 while you was here." Sending 15 pages of copy with this letter.
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; Gusgimukw
Date: 1896 Feb. 15

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1918 Sept. 17
Identifier(s): text:65531
Description: Hopes to receive answers to questions on stars, sun, and moon. Gives instructions on how to note star observations. Asks if Kwakiutl used sweat baths, if hunters or travelers left notices on paths, if dogs were used for carrying loads, if there are certain things thought to be good or bad omens. Also asks about source for meanings given for people's names.
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; Gusgimukw
Date: 1918 Sept. 17

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1917 Sept. 11
Identifier(s): text:65360
Description: Gives numerous detailed questions about terms for different kinds of chiefs, what these different kinds of positions and ranks denote, eldest sons, and "common people." Asks numerous questions regarding marriages, Hunt's 2nd wife's family, names of specific individuals.
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; Nak'waxda'xw
Date: 1917 Sept. 11

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. 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: From Boas. 1929 Nov. 27
Identifier(s): text:66305
Description: Asks about whether 'Nak'waxda'xw̱ chiefs' ownership of shamans also took place among other tribes. Asks if paxala of Fort Rupert have signs by which other members of the group recognize them. Asks for more examples of why someone might want to bewitch an enemy. Plans to print this winter stories about the beliefs of the people.
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; Nak'waxda'xw
Date: 1929 Nov. 27