George Hunt Kwak'wala ethnographic manuscripts, 1890s-1930s

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George Hunt Kwak'wala ethnographic manuscripts, 1890s-1930s

1890s-1930s

https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_17170648

The George Hunt Kwak'wala ethnographic manuscripts consist of 30 volumes (about 8,500 pages) of linguistic and ethnographic notes made about the Kwakwaka'wakw by George Hunt in Fort Rupert between about 1898 and about 1931, at the request of and in collaboration with Franz Boas. The texts, which contain a wide array of stories and cultural information, were written by Hunt in Kwakʼwala with interlinear English translations. The material also includes two of the published volumes that resulted, with Boas's annotations correlating the printed texts to the manuscripts.

30 Volumes (6 bound manuscript binders (Vols 1-3); 21 library cases of manuscripts (Vols 4-13); one letter-size manuscript box (Vol 14) and two printed books with Boas annotation (Vol 10b and CX). Total approximately 8,500 pages.)

eng, Latn

Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Hunt, George, 1854-1933

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George Hunt was a Canadian and a consultant to the American anthropologist Franz Boas; through his contributions, he is considered a linguist and ethnologist in his own right. He was Tlingit-English by birth and learned both those languages. Growing up with his parents at Fort Rupert, British Columbia in Kwakwaka'wakw territory, he learned their language and culture as well. Working with Boas, Hunt collected hundreds of items for an exhibit of the Kwakiutl culture for the World Columbian Exp...