George Hunt (ethnologist)

George Hunt was a consultant to the American anthropologist Franz Boas through his contributions he is considered a linguist and ethnologist in his own right. He was TlingitEnglish by birth and learned both those languages. Growing up with his parents at Fort Rupert, British Columbia in Kwakwakawakw territory, he learned their language and culture as well. Through marriage and adoption he became an expert on the traditions of the Kwakwakawakw of coastal British Columbia.

George Hunt was born in 1854 at Fort Rupert, British Columbia , the second of eleven children of Robert Hunt, a Hudsons Bay Company fur trader from Dorset, England, and Mary Ebbetts , a member of the Raven clan of the Taantakwan tribe of the Tlingit nation of what is now southeastern Alaska. Robert and Mary were married at the original Fort Simpson, on the Nass River in northwestern B.C.

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