Boas Islet

Boas Islet (51˚41'00" 128˚05'00" N end of Kwakshua Channel, between Hecate I and Calvert I, S of Bella Bella). Franz Boas (1858–1942), a German-born geographer, was so intrigued by a Nuxalk First Nation group from Bella Coola, which visited Germany in 1885, that he became an anthropologist instead. He made seven trips to BC between 1886 and 1897, collecting artifacts and information—especially on the Kwakwaka’wakw First Nation—and published widely on PNW aboriginal culture. After...

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