George Hunt
At a glance:
- Series: American Indians Ready Reference
- Categories: Social Science
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians, Anthropology, Anthropologists
- Curriculum: American Indian History, Canadian History
Article abstract: George Hunt worked with anthropologist Franz Boas to record Kwakiutl traditions and lifeways.
As an ethnologist, George Hunt had a major impact on the study of the Kwakiutls. He was a major contributor to the work of Franz Boas, the pioneer ethnologist of the Northwest Coast. During his lifetime, Hunt supplied Boas with more than six thousand pages of ethnographic material. He also appeared as coauthor with Boas on Kwakiutl Tears (1905) and Ethnology of the Kwakiutl (1921).
Born in 1854 at Fort Rupert, British Columbia,...
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