The bright fur accessories include fur bowties, Boas, and camera straps.
There are jaguars in there, and Boas—serpents ten yards in length.
The incorrigible and merciless Mr Boas does not let this pass.
The Boas, for example, have no less than three hundred and four!
Both Boas and Weir were believed to be "short" of the stock.
Tobias and Boas, however, are the best hunters of the village.
Again Professor Boas' account, although fragmentary, is correct.
The northern Kwakiutl are divided, says Dr. Boas, into "septs" and "clans."
The larger terminal diamond to the left is probably the Boas head.
Mr. Hill-Tout differs from my understanding of Dr. Boas's remarks.
late 14c., "large snake," from Latin boa, type of large serpent mentioned in Pliny's "Natural History;" origin unknown (in Middle English folk etymology associated with Greek bous "ox"). Extension to "snake-like coil of fur worn by ladies" is from 1836. Boa constrictor so called from 1788.
