Henry Wellington Tate and Franz Boas

Henry Wellington Tate, a Tsimshian of Port Simpson, on the north coast of British Columbia, was an interpreter and assistant teacher at the Methodist mission before the anthropologist Franz Boas (1858-1942) hired him, by correspondence, to write down the narratives of his people; according to Ralph Maud, he was paid by the page. He worked in this way until his death in the spring of 1914, and left some two thousand pages of manuscript, which Boas edited. His role has long been downplayed; Maud's work has restored his status as an author.

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• TaleTsimshian MythologyHenry Wellington Tate and Franz Boas · 1916LiteraturePublic domain