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Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1901 Mar. 22
Identifier(s): text:64936
Description: Will be writing Kawadelekala story. Has L!axsdala that belongs to that story and some of the masks.
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: 1901 Mar. 22

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1901 Mar. 4
Identifier(s): text:64943
Description: Hasn't gone to cave yet due to bad weather. Sending 31 pages of Mink story. Hopes to write G!anekelakw story and Kawadelikela story from "specimen" from Dzawada̱ʼenuxw̱ . Sending 4 cases of specimens, not listed.
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: 1901 Mar. 4

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. 1918 June 10
Identifier(s): text:65479
Description: Sending blueprint map of Kingcome Inlet. Asks Hunt to put place names on them.
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; Dzawada'enuxw
Date: 1918 June 10

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1906 June 8
Identifier(s): text:65030
Description: Received letter May 22. Sending $250 to be used for obtaining specimens from Dzawada̱ʼenuxw and other tribes where it is possible. Includes list of 41 specimens most sought for museum. Does not include everyday use items, but these can be added. Especially seeking masks and dancing implements. Old carvings wanted, not new or "shabby" one. For every mask, must have history written down in the language, and song as well if it has one. Also seeks charms. Proposes arrangement for extended amount of this kind of work. Specimens should be shipped to George Heye.
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; Dzawada'enuxw
Date: 1906 June 8

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1902 June 7
Identifier(s): text:65023
Description: List of expenditures.
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; Dzawada'enuxw
Date: 1902 June 2

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1901 Mar. 7
Identifier(s): text:64941
Description: Very interested in cave trip mentioned. Urges not to pay too much for specimens. Please write English names also for specimens sent.
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; Dzawada'enuxw; Da'naxda'xw
Date: 1901 Mar. 7

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1907 Mar. 12
Identifier(s): text:65104
Description: Received letter of February 14 and check for $250. Will pack up collection and bring it to Port Hardy for shipping, which includes carved hunting bones and warrior bones. Will next take a trip to Dzawada̱ʼenuxw or Lewkiltok to make next collection for Heye.
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; Lekwiltok
Date: 1907 Mar. 12

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1906 July 10
Identifier(s): text:65036
Description: Received letter of June 8 and $250. Will set out for Dzawada̱ʼenuxw village. People may be away at Rivers Inlet cannery. If so, will go to Gwaʼsa̱la village, as they have not collected anything from there yet. Will proceed with work in manner requested.
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; Gwa'sala
Date: 1906 July 10

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: 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. 1901 Feb. 22
Identifier(s): text:64951
Description: Took a trip to Dzawada̱ʼenuxw and tE!naxdox, "got lots of old things and stories.... I learnt that there is still more different kinds of dances that you and I don't know anything about. Now there is the Hamaste!kalał and the K!enk!o dance...." Tried to get some masks but too expensive. Sending 105 pages of stories "from different tribe". Will send L!eslagelas story in next mail. Going to Kingcome where "one Indian told me that he knows where this is one cave and that it has lots of masks and things in it and he wants $20 for it." Will go to HegEms where "I was told there is still another cave one of them belong to the [Dzawada̱ʼenuxw ] tribe and the other to the [Gwawaʼenuxw̱ ]." Saw some legełdox, may go see them after visit to these caves, then to caves up Knights Inlet, then to mummies at whalers grave. Lists several items bought: dishes, four poles, described in detail.
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; Dzawada'enuxw; Gwawa'enuxw; Lekwiltok
Date: 1901 Feb. 22

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1918 Aug. 29
Identifier(s): text:65537
Description: Received letter of August 12. Defers to Boas to sort out mistake in page numbering. Sending pages 1023-1086 "in answer to some questions." Gives extensive, detailed list of contents. Includes 28 pages of Kwagu'ł dictionary. Asks whether best to work on dictionary completion or maps next. Writing now about crying of the Dzonoq!wa and Mink's way of speaking. Will go to Gwa'yi and Dzawadi for information on clover beds and olachen traps of each nEmemot.
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; Dzawada'enuxw; Awa'etłala
Date: 1918 Aug. 29

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1918 July 8
Identifier(s): text:65539
Description: Received letters of June 3, 10, and 15. Sending 14 pages on nEnwakawe story, 28 pages of Wuikinuxv HEnL!ekwanasa story translated into Kwak'wala and English. Also sending form of same story as told by HełEm, an Wuikinuxv old man. Has 3 of the blueprint maps, 2 others being held up at Vancouver post office which sent a postcard asking about the nature of Hunt's work. Asks if Boas received map of clover beds and chief songs. Says there are more clover beds with names at Kingcome Inlet.
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; Wuikinuxv; Oowekeeno Indians
Date: 1918 July 8

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1906 Oct. 23
Identifier(s): text:65044
Description: Sending waxwElawe and wExELElayaogwa leaves and seeds. The first is "opening medicine" of the Kwaguʼł tribes. Describes how it is used as medicine. If the second plant it mistaken for it, results can be fatal. Describe how the seed must be sown for it to sprout. Still waiting for $250, needed in order to make return trip to Dzawada̱ʼenuxw and Da̱ʼnaxdaʼxw villages. Describe items obtained, including stone charcoal poker used in making canoes, and porpoise bone spears, all obtained at HegEms.
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; Da'naxda'xw; Gwawa'enuxw
Date: 1906 Oct. 23

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1928 Mar. 28
Identifier(s): text:66251
Description: Received letters of March 5 and 7. Sending pages 3924-3945 about British Man-of-war attack on the Tłatła̱siḵwaḻa, different ways of curing dog salmon, and one conversation. Had influenza recently, which slowed writing. Asked a Da̱ʼnaxdaʼxw man about his tribe's berry gardens and women's prayers for the trees, but the man refused, said it is the prayer owner's at Dzawadi. Also at Gwa'yi.
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; Tłatłasikwala; Da'naxda'xw; Dzawada'enuxw
Date: 1928 Mar. 28

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1901 Sept. 6
Identifier(s): text:64994
Description: Sending stories. Tells of dispute at a feast where Siwidi used Laxsadala lelanenoxwela "no. 98 or ghost maker" which he is sending to the Museum. Background on L!esElagelakw story claimed by both Kwagu'ł and Mama̱liliḵa̱la. Found more caves with bones. Wants permission from Mr. Vowell to access 'Na̱mǥis lake graves. Is being watched by "mission people" who don't want him to touch recent graves.
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; Kwagu'ł; Mamalilikala; Namgis
Date: 1901 Sept. 6

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1901 Feb. 6
Identifier(s): text:64942
Description: Glad to hear Hunt has been collecting among Kweksotenox; hold sending grease-beam. Can't find Q!aniqilakw story nor Mink story, so please write them out again, even if H must go to Nahwitti again to get the full version of the former. Asks about Dzawada̱ʼenuxw̱ specimen collecting, and Lewkildoq. Can H go get specimens of mummies from whaler's grave he mentioned recently?
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; Dzawada'enuxw; Kwikwasutinuxw; Lekwiltok
Date: 1901 Feb. 6

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1920 June 7
Identifier(s): text:65782
Description: Received letters of May 17 and 21. Sending pages 1789-1834 about a "full-blooded chief" who has seats Walas Kwagu'ł, MamalelegEm, Mamalilikula, LelEwagela, and Dzawada̱ʼenux̱w. Writing now about his sister, WālāsLālā. Notes that "in the book with the many illustrations ['The Social Organization and Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians'] there are so many mistakes in the names of the masks and dishes." Mentions Curtis' photo of his wife. Mentions name of a seat.
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; Dzawada'enuxw
Date: 1920 June 7

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1906 Sept. 23
Identifier(s): text:65028
Description: Received letter of September 1. Went to the Gwawaʼenuxw village of HegEms. Bought old bone spears that were dug up, two hunting bows, and some stones. Will take another trip to Dzawadi, Dzawada̱ʼenuxw village, and Cape Mudge. Sending 3 pages on "Northwest wind caller" and waxwElawe plant.
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; Gwawa'enuxw; Lekwiltok
Date: 1906 Sept. 23