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Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1918 Feb. 25
Identifier(s): text:65428
Description: Sending list of words beginning dz, ts, and ts, and others with these sounds in middle of the word. Asks for Hunt to review them for correct spelling. Also asks about -a and -id endings.
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
Date: 1918 Feb. 25

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1900 Mar. 15
Identifier(s): text:64873
Description: Was arrested by authorities in Alert Bay for going to see a Ławitʼsis winter dance with hamatsa dance. Now at home, has a lawyer, but needs more witnesses and money. Asks if any payments are due to him.
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; Ławit'sis
Date: 1900 Mar. 15

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1928 May 20
Identifier(s): text:66225
Description: Sending pages 4050-4070 of conversations and dog and earthquake story of Alert Bay. The earthquake story was told by Labet.
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: 1928 May 20

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1930 May 5
Identifier(s): text:66318
Description: Received letter of March 24. Sending pages 4695-4737, with part of G!anegelakw story relating to G̱usgimukw and hermaphrodites, also names for different kinds of songs. Trying to write about pExEla.
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
Date: 1930 May 5

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1900 Nov. 5
Identifier(s): text:64851
Description: Canadian Pacific Navigation Company says that items from Hunt have not come down yet. Asks if they have been properly shipped.
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
Date: 1900 Nov. 5

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1908 June 18
Identifier(s): text:65098
Description: Expressing his grief at the passing of his wife and the difficulties surrounding it.
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 June 18

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1919 Apr. 3
Identifier(s): text:65610
Description: Asks for more kinds of prayers to be written. Asks what is meant by "the spirit sitting on the fire of the house." Asks about distinction between writing of certain vowel sounds.
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
Date: 1919 Apr. 3

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1927 Oct. 24
Identifier(s): text:66149
Description: Sending receipt and 11 pages of dictionary. Anxious to have not received letter since seeing Boas in Victoria. Asks about items Boas mentioned he would send.
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. 24

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1932 Dec. 1
Identifier(s): text:66471
Description: Received pages 5331-5405. Instructs not to worry about writing notes about winter dances of people who are not Kwakiutl or G̱usgimukw. Sending pages 483-492 "of another account." Asks Hunt to provide corrections. Asks whether ō'sEq is Beaver Cove "or one of the bays farther east."
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; Namgis
Date: 1932 Dec. 1

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1924 May 28
Identifier(s): text:66009
Description: Sending another batch of words for looking over.
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
Date: 1924 May 28

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1922 July 31
Identifier(s): text:65941
Description: Resending and confirming plans for coming to Victoria in August.
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
Date: 1922 July 31

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1926 Feb. 12
Identifier(s): text:66079
Description: Received letters of January 4 and 8. Sending answers to questions on arrows, hat dyeing, cedar bark, and roots.
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 Feb. 12

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1928 Jan. 18
Identifier(s): text:66241
Description: Hopes for vocabulary information to be returned and examples of everyday conversation. Asks if there are any prayers or "regulations" relating to first berries of the season. Asks if there is a ceremony related to first olachen. Asks for additional information on how first salmon is handled among the Nuxalk. Asks if there are customs relating to mountain lions, Asks about customs pertaining to how certain relatives behave towards each other.
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
Date: 1928 Jan. 18

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1928 Feb. 8
Identifier(s): text:66228
Description: Sending more vocabulary cards, 201-300, for review and correction. Need to determine a way of calculating payment for work of checking the cards.
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
Date: 1928 Feb. 8

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1921 Mar. 22
Identifier(s): text:65827
Description: Received papers sent. Notes that no two people tell a story the same way. Explains larger background of omaxtā!laLE story, who told different versions, and what those differences are. Sending pages 2088-2096 about pExala.
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. 22

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1918 Nov. 14
Identifier(s): text:65619
Description: Receipt.
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
Date: 1918 Nov. 14

Title: Names of places, house posts, canoes
Identifier(s): text:212647
Description: Index of Kwakwaka'wakw names of places, house posts, and canoes found in some of Boas & Hunt publications and manuscripts. The names are ordered according to Boas's method of alphabetizing Kwak'wala. In his spelling system, the order is: E // a // ä // e (i) // y // â // o (u) // w // h // b // p // p! // m // d // t // t! // s // dz // ts // ts! // n // g' // k· // k·! // gu (gw) // ku (kw) // k!u (k!w) // g // q // q! // l // ł // L // L (with dot below) // L!. The index gives references to published and manuscript sources with a letter code and the page and line number where the name is found in that source. The letter codes are: S = "Indianische Sagen von der Nord-Pacifischen küste Amerikas" (A. Asher & Co, 1895); M = "The social organization and the secret societies of the Kwakiutl Indians" (U.S. National Museum, 1897); III = "Kwakiutl Texts" (Publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, Volume III, 1902-1905); X = "Kwakiutl Texts, Second Series" (Publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, Volume X, 1906); C = "Kwakiutl Tales" (Columbia Contributions to Anthropology, Volume III, 1910); R = "Contributions to the ethnology of the Kwakiutl" (Columbia University Press, 1925); no letter code given = George Hunt manuscript.; Part of section W1a.12. Pagination digitally re-ordered to reflect related content. Handwritten pencil page numbering reflects original pagination when first cataloged.
Creator: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942et al; Hunt, Georgeet al
Subject: Kwakwaka'wakw; Kwakiutl Indians
Date: 1925

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1932 Apr. 7
Identifier(s): text:66451
Description: Received a letter from Mrs. Cadwallader that Hunt is not in good health. Boas has been ill recently as well, confined to home for three months. "I hope it may be given to us to work together for a few years longer." Every now and then hears from Julie Averkieva, now married in Russia and working at a museum. Received pages 5148-5290 and 17 pages of names, but not the maps. Just finished paper on Kwakiutl beliefs on sickness, birth, death, and weather.
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
Date: 1932 Apr. 7

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1901 Mar. 22
Identifier(s): text:64936
Description: Will be writing Kawadelekala story. Has L!axsdala that belongs to that story and some of the masks.
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
Date: 1901 Mar. 22

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1927 Dec. 17
Identifier(s): text:66217
Description: Sending 100 cards of Kwagu'ł dictionary back with some corrections in spelling. Also sending 3879-3895 about abortion, 3895-3910 of two stories told by Odzestales. Hopes to next write down Hägwălał story of L!aL!Esëqwāl nEmemot. Woman who owns it does not want it recorded. Her son may give it after she passes away.
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: 1927 Dec. 17