Calvin Hunt
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This article is about the Canadian artist. For the American football player, see Calvin Hunt (American football). For the American gospel singer, see Calvin Hunt (singer).
Calvin Hunt (born 1956) is a Canadian First Nations artist from the Kwakiutl First Nation of Fort Rupert, British Columbia. The Kwakiutl are part of the larger group Kwakwaka'wakw.
He was born in 1956, a descendant of the renowned Tlingit ethnologist George Hunt. He was apprenticed as a teenager to his second cousin Tony Hunt.
He is a woodcarver and owns his own gallery.
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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.
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