Calvin Hunt

Calvin Hunt
Originally uploaded by sointula.

Jim is doing some engineering on a pole for master carver, Calvin Hunt. He is the Fourth primary Chief of the Mowachaht. He and his wife live in his ancestral home of Fort Rupert. They operate their carving workshop "The Copper Maker" and the retail art gallery "Kwakiutl Art of the Copper Maker Gallery. On our way home from Sointula yesterday we stopped in to see him. After Calvin Hunt and Jim discussed the pole, he graciously showed us his carver's shed, gallery and Fort Rupert's poles and big house.