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Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1918 Dec. 20
Identifier(s): text:65602
Description: Sending 55 pages (1167-1221) in answer to question about gwesEles or "beginning sparrow." Had to write about L!esElagela as well to explain it. How the nomas is called in different places. Sent map showing names for Nimpkish Lake. Mistakenly sent K'ómoks map with Knight Inlet without having annotated it. Requesting it be sent back so that he can do that. Had been sick the flu.
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; Comox Indians; Namgis
Date: 1918 Dec. 20

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: From Boas. 1921 Dec. 5
Identifier(s): text:65859
Description: Asks for story that belongs to the copper, how it got to Alert Bay, how it was bought and sold.
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; Tlingit Indians
Date: 1921 Dec. 5

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1929 Nov. 5
Identifier(s): text:66301
Description: Sending pages 4625-4626 with info on different names of rope tying, as well as names of four groups of the gwEtela, q!umuyEwe, wālās Kwaguʼł, Mamalilikula, Tłatła̱siḵwaḻ a, and 'Nak'waxda'xw̱ . These names used in small potlatches and small feasts.
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; Tłatłasikwala; Nak'waxda'xw
Date: 1929 Nov. 5

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1901 June 1
Identifier(s): text:64993
Description: Recovering from a bad cold. Is planning to go around to caves. Going to HegEms cave of Gwawaʼenuxw , also caves of 'Nak'waxda'xw and Dzawada̱ʼenuxw
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; Nak'waxda'xw; Dzawada'enuxw; Gwawa'enuxw
Date: 1901 June 1

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1925 May 9
Identifier(s): text:66071
Description: Looked over notes sent by Boas on April 21. Sending pages 3119-3133 about what Indians there said about Bekwê'lenukw and songs. Lists different kinds of war songs sent.
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; Da'naxda'xw
Date: 1925 May 9

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1931 June 5
Identifier(s): text:66413
Description: Working on maps with places names. Sending eleven sheets with info on places he cannot find on the map but are on typewritten list, most in Knight Inlet or Kingcome Inlet. Sending blueprints of region where most of these are. Asks Hunt to mark their location.
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; Awa'etłala; Dzawada'enuxw; Mamalilikala; Da'naxda'xw
Date: 1931 June 5

Title: GwāxElāł hired by L!ałEɛyëgElis mother to cut salmon
Identifier(s): text:160125
Description: Interlinear text in Kwak'wala and English. Written down by Hunt and sent to Boas in October 1928. Located in ACLS Item W1a.3, part 3, folder 3.
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: Kwakiutl Indians--Food; Kwakiutl Indians--Social life and customs; Kwakwaka'wakw; Salmon
Date: 1928

Title: Preserving horse clams for winter food
Identifier(s): text:143131
Description: Interlinear text in Kwak'wala and English. Written down by Hunt and sent to Boas in April 1926. Located in ACLS Item W1a.3, part 3, folder 2.
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: Kwakiutl Indians--Food; Kwakiutl Indians--Social life and customs; Kwakwaka'wakw; Clams
Date: 1926

Title: Steam cooked smoked clams
Identifier(s): text:143110
Description: Interlinear text in Kwak'wala and English. Written down by Hunt and sent to Boas in April 1926. Located in ACLS Item W1a.3, part 3, folder 2.
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: Kwakiutl Indians--Food; Kwakiutl Indians--Social life and customs; Kwakwaka'wakw; Clams
Date: 1926

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1917 Nov. 30
Identifier(s): text:65346
Description: Sending 16 pages of copy sent for reviewing, and 3 pages of maxwEyaledze different names. Could not make out some names in the copy for review. Compares differences in forms of a particular name among Tłatła̱siḵwa̱la, Kwaguʼł, and Wuikinuxv. Explains difference in speaking of q!alid, history teller of the nEkEmgElisEla, and q!omkEnes, history teller of the Tłatła̱siḵwa̱la.
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; Tłatłasikwala; Oowekeeno Indians; Wuikinuxv
Date: 1917 Nov. 30

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1906 Aug. 23
Identifier(s): text:65027
Description: Received letter of June 15. Is satisfied with answers about payment. Went to Dzawadi, Dzawada̱ʼenuxw , and 'Nak'waxda'xw , but all the people were away. Found some old people at Nahwitti and made a small collection. Then went to Rivers Inlet and found many different tribes working in the canneries. Bought old stones at head of Inlet. Sending specimen list. Did not buy masks as they were all new and made with blue paint. Describes details of winter dance seen while there. Could not obtain those 22 masks, as law is that they be burned after being shown four times. Asks if Boas would like someone to make a new set of those 22 masks. Sending "true story of nEnwakawe" which was told in the winter dance an old Wuikinuxv person. Sending two love songs. Gives brief detail on murder case for which son was called as witness.
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; Awa'etłala; Nak'waxda'xw; Wuikinuxv; Oowekeeno Indians
Date: 1906 Aug. 23

Title: Drawing of traditional house design
Identifier(s): text:160087
Description: Ink drawing of Kwakwaka'wakw house design, with terms in Kwak'wala and English.
Creator: Hunt, George
Subject: Indians of North America--British Columbia; Kwakiutl Indians; Kwakwaka'wakw
Date: 1924

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1918 Sept. 28
Identifier(s): text:65538
Description: Received leter of September 17. Will write about the stars, sun, and moon, and talk to some G̱usgimukw people about it. Gives lengthy, detailed description of sweat baths used for sick people among "Alaska Indians" (Tlingit). Will write about Kwaguʼł version of sweat baths. Says that hunter do leave notes for others on trails. Discusses role of dogs, use of dogs wool. Gives particular dogs' names and their owners and tribes. Will work on question of different meaning and translations of Indian names. Gives lengthy example of the name q!om'xālāgEles. Finished a map of Dzawadi River with locations of olachen traps. Talked with head chief Maxwayaledze of Ma'amtagila for the names of traps, but he could only remember two.
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; Ma'amtagila; Mamalilikala; Gusgimukw; Da'naxdaʼxw; Tlingit Indians
Date: 1918 Sept. 28

Title: Drawing of salmon smokehouse
Identifier(s): text:160091
Description: Pencil drawing of Kwakwaka'wakw fish smokehouse, with terms in Kwak'wala and English. Hunt's title: "xElats!e gokw or drying house; wewamedzats!e or salmon fisher house."
Creator: Hunt, George
Source: American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society (Mss.497.3.B63c); https://search.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.3.B63c-ead.xml
Subject: Indians of North America--British Columbia; Kwakiutl Indians; Kwakwaka'wakw
Date: 1919

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1918 Apr. 20
Identifier(s): text:65472
Description: Sending more Rivers Inlet pages from 1897. Asks for Hunt's corrections and translations.
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; Wuikinuxv; Oowekeeno Indians; Tłatłasikwala; Nahwitti
Date: 1918 Apr. 20

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1920 July 9
Identifier(s): text:65787
Description: Sending pages 1864-1872 regarding tobacco and pipes. Gives detailed explanation of his theory that Nuu-chah-nulth were the first in the region to learn about tobacco from white men, that a ship they raided escaped and went to Bella Bella, where the Heiltsuk encountered smoking, and that the Kwagu'ł learned it from them. Explains etymology of terms for smoking, or "eating smoke."
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; Nuu-chah-nulth; Nootka Indians; Heiltsuk Indians
Date: 1920 July 9

Title: "Another way [of] counting men of the Kwagu'ł and the long and short name of the nEmemot"
Identifier(s): text:160094
Creator: Hunt, George
Subject: Indians of North America--British Columbia; Kwakiutl Indians; Kwakwaka'wakw
Date: 1920

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1911 July 25
Identifier(s): text:65208
Description: Wrote about Kwagu'ł names and their high eagle seats, about MaxmEwesagEme of Dzawada̱ʼenuxw who married a Heiltsuk woman, son married Mama̱liliḵa̱la, and daughter married Kwexa, and son married 'Na̱mǥis. Discusses how names and seats are given out.
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; Namgis; Heiltsuk Indians; Haisla Indians
Date: 1911 July 25

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1919 Jan. 11
Identifier(s): text:65629
Description: Sending pages 1232-1233 with different names of "Indians' court or k!wāłā" used when a man is killed and his relations confer about their response. Will give translations of names and write about how nekap!enkEm went to war against the Saanich.
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; Coast Salish Indians; Saanich
Date: 1919 Jan. 11