Calvin Hunt (born 1956, Kwakiutl) is a Canadian

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artist from Fort Rupert,

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. The Kwakiutl are part of the larger nation Kwakwaka'wakw. He is a descendant of the renowned Tlingit ethnologist George Hunt. He was apprenticed as a teenager to his second cousin Tony Hunt, an artist and carver. He is a

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and owns his own gallery. He was made a member of the

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* Hunt, Ross (2007) "The Hunt Family's Trip to West Germany to Attend the Bundesgarten Show." ''Anthropology News,'' vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 20–21. * Macnair, Peter L., Alan L. Hoover, and Kevin Neary (1984) ''The Legacy: Tradition and Innovation in Northwest Coast Indian Art.'' Vancouver, B.C.: Douglas & McIntyre. 1956 births Living people 20th-century First Nations sculptors Canadian male sculptors 20th-century Canadian male artists 21st-century First Nations people 21st-century Canadian sculptors 21st-century Canadian male artists Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw woodcarvers Members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts {{NorthAm-native-bio-stub