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Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1913 May 12
Identifier(s): text:65224
Description: Sending 123 pages of the different marriages of the senL!Em nEmemot and its beginning with Q!omoks and Lekwiltok. Story begins 40+ years before Fort Rupert was built up. Cannot send any plants yet as the weather is still too cold.
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; Lekwiltok; Comox Indians
Date: 1913 May 12

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1918 Sept. 24
Identifier(s): text:65543
Description: Received letter of September 9 and 10. Sending back 4 maps, with pages 1106-1158, which include names of stars, 2 pages of roots in press, 2 pages of names of roots, and 2 pages of names of wind and weather. Defers to Boas on pay rate for map work. Working next on map with K'ómoks place names. Will next write on "how L'esElagelā and mā'xāyos talk to each other."
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; Comox Indians
Date: 1918 Sept. 24

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1926 Jan. 9
Identifier(s): text:66095
Description: Sending pages 3206-3233 about L!āqwāgēdâkw, a Gwawaʼenuxw chief whose daughter married a black bear chief. Next story will be about curses and shamans told by Odzestales.
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; Gwawa'enuxw; Comox Indians
Date: 1926 Jan. 9

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1913 Apr. 19
Identifier(s): text:65230
Description: Received letter of April 4. Will write about how senL!Em went and took a wife who was half K'ómoks from the Lekwiltok. Gives names of her parents. Cannot send medicinal plant as they are not yet in bloom.
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; Lekwiltok; Comox Indians
Date: 1913 Apr. 19

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1926 Oct. 7
Identifier(s): text:66145
Description: Received letter of August 26. Check still has not come. Sending pages 3383-3413, end of story about "how the winter dance begins from the wolves." Describes more about attendants and officers at winter ceremonies.
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; Wiwekam; Comox Indians
Date: 1926 Oct. 7

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: Elicitation of words for household objects and the Story of the Bogeyman
Identifier(s): audio:6446; APSdigrec_2376; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 07
Description: The Story of the Bogeyman, given in Comox only, runs from 5:57 to 9:04.
Source: Watanabe, Honoré. Interviews with Comox Indians, [1992]. (Mss.Rec.169);
Subject: Anthropological linguistics; Comox language; Comox Indians--Folklore; anthropological_linguistics
Date: 1991-08-30

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: 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 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