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Title: Field notebook 1888 #2
Identifier(s): text:344134
Description: Includes vocabularies, texts, shorthand notes for Heiltsuk, Tlingit, Haida, Cowichan (Coast Salish), "Aht," Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth), Ntlakapamuk (Nlaka'pamux), Kootenai (Kutenai, Ktunaxa). NOTE: Pagination in online version may not reflect original order of pages, which have shifted through researcher use after the item was disbound.
Creator: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942et al
Subject: British Columbia; Coast Salish Indians; Tlingit Indians
Date: 1888

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

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1925 Apr. 22
Identifier(s): text:66072
Description: Received letter of February 21 and March 31. Sending pages 51-67, ałq!ex story, and pages 3059-3118 of second war of ʼNa̱mǥis against Exwădets!anox, with war song, and another war of ʼNa̱mǥis against "Victoria Indians" with war song. Odzestales is giving stories for free as Hunt did some work for him after his sister died. Working on getting some more difficult words.
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; Lekwiltok; Heiltsuk Indians; Coast Salish Indians; Saanich; Lekwungen Indians
Date: 1925 Apr. 22

Title: Field notebook 1886 #2
Identifier(s): text:263752
Description: Includes vocabularies, texts, shorthand notes for Comox (Coast Salish), Lequiltoq (Lekwiltok), Sisia'atl (Shishalh, Sechelt).
Creator: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942et al
Subject: British Columbia; Coast Salish Indians; Kwakwaka'wakw; Comox Indians; Halkomelem language; Sechelt language; Sechelt Indians
Date: 1886

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1919 Feb. 10
Identifier(s): text:65615
Description: Received letter of January 20. Sending pages 1242-1296 about the wars of the Kwaguʼł against the Saanich, explained in the story of nekap!enkEm and his oath, and the war of the Gwatʼsinux̱w against the Tłaskinuxw, to show that Indians do not have courts and judges. Sent the Knight Inlet map in the past. Has not received new Knight Inlet map. Has names to add to it of mountains. Nimpkish Lake map's names are with names on other sheets 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; Tłatłasikwala; Gwat'sinuxw; Namgis; Awa'etłala; Da'naxda'xw; Coast Salish Indians; Saanich
Date: 1919 Feb. 10

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1921 Dec. 4
Identifier(s): text:65829
Description: Received letter of November 14. Read the Nowell story on the copper to "oldest men of Fort Rupert." The men laughed at the story, said it was wrong. Gives extensive story on background of price of the copper and how it inflated through being resold. Gives fuller background story of the copper and its meaning, and relation to his mother. Suggest Boas get the history of the Seattle totem pole to get "all the different storys" of what's on the copper. Hunt was asked to write it out with his mother after they put it up there. Gives detailed story of mother 's coming to Fort Rupert in 1850. Tells another detailed story of another copper made in secret by a Haida man hired by k!âde, and how k!âde sold it in 1873 in Victoria. This copper now owned by a Dzawada̱ʼenux̱w chief. Gives very detailed background on k!âde and his relations. Includes names of 5 signed witnesses who gave this background story. Ends with 2 full-page sketches of each copper, probably sent with letter of December 14.; Contains the image Māmō'gwelēlā
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; Haida Indians; Tlingit Indians; Tsimshian Indians; Coast Salish Indians; Saanich; Ma'amtagila; Ławit'sis; Namgis; Dzawada̱'enux̱w
Date: 1921 Dec. 4

Title: Diary of field work, 1886 [English translation]
Identifier(s): text:159566
Description: English translation of Franz Boas' diary of letters written to his parents during his fieldwork trip to British Columbia from September 18 to December 16, 1886.
Creator: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942et al
Subject: Kwakwaka'wakw; Kwakiutl Indians; Haida Indians; Oowekeeno Indians; Nuxalk Indians; Cowichan Indians; Wuikinuxv; Coast Salish Indians; Lekwungen Indians; Stó:lō Indians; Comox Indians; Pentlatch Indians; Grave robbing; Human remains (Archaeology)
Date: 1886

Title: Field notebook 1888 #1
Identifier(s): text:245618
Description: Includes vocabularies, texts, shorthand notes for Squamish (Skwxwú7mesh), Tsimshian, Nisgah (Nisga'a), Haida, Coast Salish anthropometric measurements, Stikine Tlingit (Shtaxʼhéen Ḵwáan, previously misidentified as Tahltan), Kwak'wala (Kwakwaka'wakw), Tlingit, Heiltsuk.
Creator: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942et al
Subject: Squamish langauge; Tsimshian language; Nisga'a language; Haida language; Kwak'wala language; Kwakwaka'wakw; Tlingit language; Heiltsuk-Oowekyala language; British Columbia; Anthropometry; Coast Salish Indians
Date: 1888

Title: Field notebook 1886 #3
Identifier(s): text:263932
Description: Includes vocabularies, texts, shorthand notes for Bella Coola (Nuxalk), Tlingit, Cowichan, Nitinat (Ditidaht), Comox, Pentlatch (Coast Salish), Lequiltoq (Lekwiltok), Sisia'atl (Shishalh, Sechelt), and Tsimshian. NOTE: Pagination in online version may not reflect original order of pages, which have shifted through researcher use after the item was disbound.
Creator: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942et al
Subject: British Columbia; Coast Salish Indians; Comox Indians; Halkomelem language; Sechelt language; Sechelt Indians; Kwakwaka'wakw; Tlingit Indians; Tsimshian Indians; Cowichan Indians; Nuxalk Indians; Ditidaht Indians; Nuu-chah-nulth
Date: 1886