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Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1919 Apr. 28
Identifier(s): text:65608
Description: Acknowledging receipt of payment for pages 1297-1421, map of Dzawadi.
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; Awa'etłala
Date: 1919 Apr. 28

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1918 Nov. 19
Identifier(s): text:65617
Description: Sending sheet with different forms of same name from Hunt's writing and old notes. Asks about specific sounds, letters.
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. 19

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1918 Aug. 5
Identifier(s): text:65554
Description: Received letters of June 27 and July 22. Both David's child and his eldest daughter died recently. Hopes missing pages turn up. Has not received check for much of recent work nor word on how work on maps will be paid for. (Over 600 names written down already.) Gives details of accounts and pages of unpaid work. Will write next on Mink and Dzonoq!wa.
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: 1918 Aug. 5

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1923 Apr. 4
Identifier(s): text:65933
Description: Received letter of March 23. Unhappy to hear of trouble with police. Not confident that his protesting will be of much use.
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: 1923 Apr. 4

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1919 Mar. 31
Identifier(s): text:65630
Description: Received letter of March 20, pages 1329-1352, and sketch of mountain.
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 Mar. 31

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1929 May 9
Identifier(s): text:66343
Description: Sending again questions about the language.
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: 1929 May 9

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1906 May 22
Identifier(s): text:65041
Description: Received letter of April 13. Does not have specimens, but if money is sent, can get specimens. Mentions Dzawada̱ʼenuxw having "lots of good old masks and stories belong[ing] to them." If money can be sent for obtaining specimens, will not work at Rivers Inlet this summer. Will go to Alert Bay to take requested photographs. Asks again about additional money for writing about cooking. Lists other things not yet paid for.
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: 1906 May 22

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1929 June 26
Identifier(s): text:66296
Description: From Boas's secretary. Received letter of June 11 and pages 4533-4543.
Creator: Bryan, Ruth W.
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: 1929 June 26

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1924 June 13
Identifier(s): text:66002
Description: Received letter of May 31 and material sent with it. Asks if Hunt has had the time to put down the places where ancestors came down on the maps that Dr. Newcombe recently sent. Asks Hunt to estimate a fair rate for correcting vocabulary pages they are currently working on.
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 June 13

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1919 Dec. 8
Identifier(s): text:65727
Description: Unclear as to fair rate for pages containing names. Also asks for clarification on correct term for abalone shell.
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 Dec. 8

Title: Panther or mountain lion
Identifier(s): text:173123
Description: Interlinear text in Kwak'wala and English. Written down by Hunt and sent to Boas with letter of December 24, 1928. Located in ACLS Collection, Item W1a.3, part 2, folder 1.
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; Kwakwaka'wakw
Date: 1928

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1928 Nov. 9
Identifier(s): text:66233
Description: Sending 4317-4326 on L!ałEyegElis being taught how to pick berries. Would like to send photographs on how cedar bark is used in basket making.
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
Date: 1928 Nov. 9

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1922 July 12
Identifier(s): text:65940
Description: Received letter of June 28. Sending pages 2428-2461 about pExala. Explains expenses for coming down to Victoria in fall. May be difficult to bring someone else along as everyone is away presently working and fishing. Would have to provide better pay than that work for someone to agree to coming. Pliny Earle Goddard came to visit earlier in the month with Dr. Newcombe. Goddard was taking motion pictures, and saying that Hunt should come to New York again, and work on the museum collections. Newcombe discussed Nowell's copper. Told him that Paul HaxwalaLEla is its rightful owner.
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: 1922 July 12

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1926 May 14
Identifier(s): text:66065
Description: Receipt.
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 May 14

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1919 Nov. 20
Identifier(s): text:65718
Description: Would like information on counting in Kwak'wala. Suggests numbers and types of items needed to show how it works.
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 Nov. 20

Title: Cranmer, Dan: From Franz Boas. 1934-01-15:;
Identifier(s): text:156426
Description: ;
Subject: Kwakiutl Indians; Kwakwaka'wakw
Date: 1934-01-15

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1917 Aug. 7
Identifier(s): text:65356
Description: Seeds of the q!esena that were sent did not sprout. Asks for more samples of it. Identifies the xogum as a type of lilly. Has secured another $300 to pay for work by Hunt through June 1918.
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: 1917 Aug. 7

Title: Cranmer, Dan: From Franz Boas. 1934-07-20:;
Identifier(s): text:156440
Description: ;
Subject: Kwakiutl Indians; Kwakwaka'wakw
Date: 1934-07-20

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1926 Oct. 29
Identifier(s): text:66140
Description: Received letter of October 18. Sending pages 3414-3443 about the Yāges, the first Gwaʼsa̱la man, Tā!tE!nts!ede, the prayer of Hemsp!eq, and different names of houses of some nEmemot. Was not able to work in September as price of salmon was high and had to go trawling.
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; Gwa'sala
Date: 1926 Oct. 29

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1925 Mar. 31
Identifier(s): text:66067
Description: Sending check. Asks after canoe songs and seats of the Kwakiutl tribes. Would like to get translations of words from American way of talking to determine whether Indians used such expressions in early times.
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: 1925 Mar. 31