Art of the Americas

George Hunt (ethnologist)

George Hunt (February 14, 1854 – 1933) was a Tlingit-Canadian linguist and ethnologist, who consulted for American anthropologist Franz Boas during Boas' fieldwork in coastal British Columbia. 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. Through marriage and adoption he became an expert on the traditions of the Kwakwaka'wakw (then known as "Kwakiutl"). Working with Boas, Hunt collected hundreds of items for an exhibit of the Kwakiutl culture for the World Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago, and accompanied 17 people of the tribe there. Boas taught Hunt to write in Kwakiutl, and the native ethnologist wrote thousands of pages of description of Kwakiutl culture over the next decades.

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• ▸Chango people
• ▸Cleveland Museum of Natural History
• ▸Itzcoatl

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