CHAPTER VII: POST 1897 AFTERLIVES
Post 1897: Influence in the Museum
“I am hoping that you are using the winter months for continuing your collections, and I am anxiously waiting to hear from you so that I may embody the results of your work in my report.”
—Franz Boas to […]
CHAPTER VI: 1895-96 PREPARING THE BOOK
Preparing the Book in New York, Washington,
and Fort Rupert
“I cant get any ceder Bark yet for the Indians would not sell them yet for [they] are useing them yet in [their] winter Dance. As soon as [they’re] Done With the Dance and use of […]
CHAPTER V: 1894 FORT RUPERT
Boas and Hunt’s Fieldwork in Fort Rupert, BC, 1894
“I copy some of your notes for the Dance of 1894 while you was here. And find it Hard in some Plases But I think I can go throgh it and I think you will […]
CHAPTER IV: 1893 CHICAGO WORLD’S FAIR
At the World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893
“I am Expecting little trouble from the Missionary here every day for his trying to find out what I have been Doing in the Fair. For he came to me and said that I show some […]
CHAPTER III: EARLY FIELDWORK AND COLLECTIONS
Boas’s Approach to Anthropology
“We have not a single [cedar-bark] ring here, and I want very badly to have a series of such with the traditions and songs belonging to them.… It is better for us to get a few less and […]
CHAPTER II: CULTURAL BACKGROUND
Kwakwaka’wakw Social and Ceremonial Organization
Figure 17 from Boas’s 1897 book, depicting a house in X̱wa̱mdasbe’.
Kwakwaka’wakw means “The people who speak Kwak̓wala.” The term refers to more than 18 First Nations residing on the central coast of British Columbia. […]
CHAPTER I: FRANZ BOAS AND GEORGE HUNT
History of Collaboration
“Now about the book with the many illustrations. There are so many mistakes in the names of the masks and dishes that I think should be put to rights before one of us die.”
—George Hunt to Franz Boas, 7 June 1920 […]
CHAPTER XI: BEHIND THE SCENES
“Opening the Story Box” Film
Corrine Hunt, who contributed graphics to the exhibition, and other descendants of George Hunt reflect on the value of Franz Boas’s 1897 book to Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw families today.
Opening the Story Box: Reflections on […]
CHAPTER XI: BEHIND THE SCENES
Insights from Scientific Analysis
Bard Graduate Center faculty members Aaron Glass and Jennifer Mass (right), with students Sophie Swanson and Lillia McEnaney (left), conducting portable XRF testing on a Copper (16/517) at the American Museum of Natural History. Photograph by Jocelyn Lau, […]
CHAPTER XI: BEHIND THE SCENES
Prototype for the Digital Critical Edition
A new print edition of the 1897 book will deliver scholarly resources in the form of critical essays, annotations, and appendices. The planned digital edition will provide a model for the integration of disparate […]