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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: 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

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1900 Oct. 24
Identifier(s): text:64862
Description: Received letter of October 9. Pleased to hear of collecting success. Price of $2 per skull is high but worth it. Will send more collecting money. Asks about three dishes Boas bought just before leaving Alert Bay.
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; Gusgimukw; Xuyalas
Date: 1900 Oct. 24

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1919 July 18
Identifier(s): text:65717
Description: Was called away to Seymour Inlet by brother-in-law. Received letters of May 12, 17, and 19. Sending pages 1437-1446 about halibut fishing and prayers, and 1447-1460 about chief, carver, painter, and board splitter, relating to what chief must pay for to maintain his name. Will write next more about giving of property. Working on Fort Rupert census from 1866. Letter includes detailed list of all pages sent March 11 to June 10.
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 July 18

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1901 Oct. 7
Identifier(s): text:64995
Description: Will write to A. T. Vowell to obtain permission for Hunt to collect from graves at NImpkish Lake.
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; Namgis
Date: 1901 Oct. 7

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1908 June 18
Identifier(s): text:65101
Description: Sending 94 pages about kelp fish and pExet catching and cooking. Will write about red cedar bark preparation and canoes. Will go to Dzawada̱ʼenuxw̱ for information on canoes as they keep the names of canoes. Will go to G̱usgimukw for info on high bow war canoes. Will try to get photos of salmon. Thanks Boas deeply for his help.
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; Gusgimukw
Date: 1908 June 18

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1896 July 9
Identifier(s): text:64797
Description: "You are the only help I got in this world." Sending 20 pages of the last winter dance in Fort Rupert in 1894. Will try to get more info on Kwagu'ł "old things". Is using Mr. Spencer to buy items of interest. Went to G̱usgimukw to get the secret song of Tokwet and other songs. Asks about photograph.
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 July 9

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1916 Dec. 22
Identifier(s): text:65290
Description: Received letter of November 29. Will send more samples of plants in the spring. Gives plant names. Sending 14 pages of wailing of 'Nak'waxda'xw woman named L!aL!akoł, and 3 pages of love songs, one of them Da̱ʼnaxdaʼxw. Will write down more love songs and more information on pExEla, utilizing 'Nak'waxda'xw wife's knowledge of pExEla spirits, songs, and names. Still working on question from a few weeks earlier regarding a deer with no teeth. Old men he talked to about it do not use many of the words. Needs the question to be reworded.
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; Da'naxda'xw; Nak'waxda'xw
Date: 1916 Dec. 22

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1900 Jan. 3
Identifier(s): text:64874
Description: Has questions about collection sent a few month earlier. Notes discrepancies between description of a mask described by Boas in "The Social Organization and Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians" as a "fool-dancer's mask" but described by Hunt as that of Gepaxoas, a G̱usgimukw ancestor. Expresses understanding that some items are reproductions of implements no longer used. However, the stone head appears to not be an old specimen, but rather a new one. Is concerned that items purported to be old are fraudulently being sold to Hunt. Advises to continue collecting wood carving, but to refrain from collecting "specimens belonging to the dances" until Boas's visit in the spring.
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; Gusgimukw; Namgis
Date: 1900 Jan. 3

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1926 June 26
Identifier(s): text:66093
Description: Anxious to receive a letter and answers to pending questions. Talk about them both getting older. Asks for more information about the Lekwiltok, such as stories, info on winter dances, and differences in comparison to the Kwaguʼł. Asks for information on children's game from Fort Rupert.
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; Lekwiltok
Date: 1926 June 26

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1918 Dec. 30
Identifier(s): text:65624
Description: Received 1167-1221 and map of Nimpkish Lake, but not the names that go with the lake. Asking about name sheet for Gwatʼsinux̱w Inlet and Knight Inlet.
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; Gusgimukw; Awa'etłala
Date: 1918 Dec. 30

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1901 June 4
Identifier(s): text:64996
Description: Sending pages. Kwagu'ł and Mama̱liliḵa̱la both claim the Mink story as theirs. An old man told him of a cave with masks: sesEyuL, naxnakagEmł, and ElEmł.
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
Date: 1901 June 4

Title: Kwakiutl dictionary
Identifier(s): text:166522
Description: Kwak'wala-English dictionary, organized alphabetically according to writing system developed by Franz Boas and George Hunt. Many entries provide references to page and line numbers in Boas's published Kwakiutl volumes where the given term appears. Edited by Boas's daughter Helene Yampolsky in 1948 from Boas's original work, itself based extensively upon Kwak'wala materials recorded by George Hunt from numerous Kwakwaka'wakw speakers and knowledge keepers from the 1890s to the 1930s.
Creator: Yampolsky, Helene; Boas, Franz, 1858-1942; 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 language; Kwakiutl Indians
Date: 1948

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1898 May 25
Identifier(s): text:64796
Description: Sending 80 pages of different stories of masks and red cedar bark that he bought. His brother says that the G̱usgimukw feasting dishes have been sent. Bought Lagekw from Dzawada̱ʼenuxw̱ and wrote down (?) goat hunter stories. Harlan Smith wants Hunt to work for him. Can't yet get Hamget to pull down Galet house to get the house post.
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; Dzawada̱ʼenuxw̱
Date: 1898 May 25

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1897 Nov. 12
Identifier(s): text:64790
Description: Will be going to Tłatła̱siḵwaḻa again to buy totem house post. Going to G̱usgimukw to buy carved dishes and other items. Talks about grief over death of son. Hopes Boas received info on face painting. Did not know what they all meant, but put names on them. They were painted by Charlie Yakolas.
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; Tłatłasikwala
Date: 1897 Nov. 12

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1930 May 29
Identifier(s): text:66336
Description: Asks for more information about funerals, whether there are different kinds, speeches or prayers said at them, regulations that mourners have to observe, mourning songs. Gave today a note of introduction to a new student, Frederica de Laguna, who may come to Fort Rupert in the summer. She is interested in archaeology. Asks for Hunt to help her if she comes. Boas planning to come to Fort Rupert in October, though arrangements not yet made. Hoping to find someone who still speaks G̱usgimukw dialect unaffected by Fort Rupert dialect. Will likely bring a young Russian student, Julie Averkieva.
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: 1930 May 29

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1896 Mar. 9
Identifier(s): text:64801
Description: Sending 15 pages of copy about dances of 1894. Has written down different ways of speaking among Kwagu'ł and G̱usgimukw. Asks if Boas wants this info, more histories, etc.
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 Mar. 9

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1916 May 7
Identifier(s): text:65277
Description: Received letter of April 22. Has not received check yet of $125 for 375 pages, but glad it is coming. Not feeling well lately. Feeling age, having recently turned 62. Many tribes came to Alert Bay recently for potlatch and winter dance, which was not like those of old time Kwagu'ł winter dance, such as Boas got to see. "I see some white men came to get old stories from the Indians and you know yourself by looking into the writers books that the stories in them is taken from four or five stories to make one story and it is what I call patched up story as also I see lots of paintings that only made up for sale." Describes several "true history paintings" in the manner of house front paintings demonstrating histories of important figures and mythical creatures. Assents to having his name on the book to be published. Sending "one of my 'pExEla' or doctor songs." "This is the first I gave away of this kind."
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; Gwawa'enuxw
Date: 1916 May 7

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1900 May 22
Identifier(s): text:64858
Description: Will likely be in Alert Bay by July 1. Hopes Hunt can arrange for finding old people who can tell stories. Especially wants someone from Nahwitti who can tell the whole Qanikilak story. Intends to stay in Alert Bay for most of summer.
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; Tłatłasikwala; Nahwitti
Date: 1900 May 22

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1921 Jan. 2
Identifier(s): text:65851
Description: Received letter of December 20. Explains page numbering error. Sending pages 1890-1927. In dream narratives previously sent, notes differences is Kwaguʼł and G̱usgimukw ways of speaking. Man who stepped in Hunt's bear trap did not appear in court in Nanaimo, so Hunt was cleared.
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: 1921 Jan. 2