George Hunt (February 14, 1854 – 1933) (Tlingit) was a Canadian and a consultant to the American anthropologist Franz Boas; through his contributions, he is considered a linguist and ethnologist in his own right.

Working with Boas, Hunt collected hundreds of items for an exhibit of the Kwakiutl culture for the World Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago, and accompanied 17 people of the tribe there.

), the second of eleven children of Robert Hunt (1828-1893), a Hudson's Bay Company fur trader from Dorset, England, and Mary Ebbetts (Ansnaq, Anislaga, A'naeesla'ga or Anain) (1823-1919), a member of the Raven clan of the Taantakwáan (Tongass) tribe of the Tlingit nation of what is now southeastern Alaska.

Robert and Mary were married at the original Fort Simpson, now called Lax-Kw'alaams, on the Nass River not far from the city of Prince Rupert in northwestern British Columbia.

Mary Hunt née Ebbetts (Ansnaq, Anislaga, A'naeesla'ga and Anain), a master Chilkat weaver, was influential among the Kwakwaka'wakw at Tsaxis, Fort Rupert, and introduced concepts of Tlingit hereditary privileges and artistic motifs (reflected on totem poles) into the local society.

They continued to work together and later Boas taught Hunt to write the Kwak'wala language, to record oral histories and other cultural material.

Boas credited Hunt as co-author in Kwakiutl Texts, second series (1906), one of the numerous volumes published into the 1930s in relation to the work of the Jesup expedition.

[3] Boas and Hunt worked to organize and create an exhibit of Kwakiutl and other Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest at the 1893 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

When Boas received texts collected from other speakers, he sent the transcriptions to Hunt to look over, remarking in a 1931 letter, "In some cases, I can guess what is wrong but I had rather have you correct it than use my own uncertain knowledge of Kwakiutl.

In the late 19th and early 20th century wealthy people began to collect Pacific Northwest Indian art and totem poles.