NOTE ON THE ACCOMPANYING PAPER 
A paper of considerable importance, edited by Dr. Franz Boas, of 
Columbia University, is appended to this report. The material for 
the paper was collected and recorded by Mr. George Hunt, a mixed- 
_ blood Kwakiutl, of Fort Rupert, British Columbia, who is respon- 
sible for the accuracy, the authenticity, and the character of the 
contents of the paper. Mr. Hunt also collaborated in a similar way 
with Dr. Boas in a former work, entitled ‘The Social Organization 
and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians,”’ published in the 
Report of the United States National Museum for the year ending 
June 30, 1895. 
The accompanying paper, entitled ‘Ethnology of the Kwakiutl,” 
deals with the arts and industries, the methods and devices employed 
in hunting and fishing, the methods and means of gathering and 
preserving other kinds of food, the recipes for preparing food for 
consumption, and the beliefs and customs of a group of several 
tribes or peoples, more or less closely related, who dwell on the 
Pacific coast of North America, in the vicinity of Fort Rupert, on 
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, and are called the Kwakiutl. 
The languages spoken by these tribes belong to the Wakashan 
linguistic stock, which, as constituted by Powell, is composed of two 
large groups of fundamentally related languages, to one of which 
the name Kwakiutl is applied, and the name Nootka to the other. 
In 1904 the Kwakiutl group of dialects was spoken by 2,173 persons— 
a number which is, however, gradually decreasing. 
The name Kwakiutl, in its original and more restricted sense, was 
applied to this group of tribes, consisting of the Walas-Kwakiutl 
(Great Kwakiutl), Komoyue, Guetela, and Komkutis. But in time 
the Komoyue camped at Tsaite, and a portion of the Kwakiutl who 
emigrated from their congeners are known as the Matilpe. By enu- 
merating the Matilpe and the Komoyue apart from the other tribes 
or septs, the Canadian Department of Indian Affairs limits the name 
Kwakiutl to the Guetela, Komkutis, and the Walas-Iwakiutl (Great 
Kwakiutl). 
The Kwakiutl are essentially a fisher folk, and so.to them all 
other gainful pursuits are of secondary importance. 
Many Indian tribes, distinct in physical characteristics and dis- 
tinct also in languages, but who are one in culture, occupy the 
Pacific coast of America between Juan de Fuca Strait and Yakutat 
Bay. This they are because, in large measure, their industries and 
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