Hunt Family Tree
1988
Tony Hunt Jr.
First Nations, Kwakwaka’wakw, Kwagiulth, 1961 - 2013
The Hunt family is known for producing refined, contemporary versions of older Kwakwaka'wakw ceremonial arts. Illustrious family members include Mary Ebbetts Hunt, the Tlingit-born matriarch; George Hunt, who collected extensively for Franz Boas at the American Museum of Natural History; and Mungo Martin, one of the mostly highly acclaimed artists of his generation. Tony Hunt Jr., Calvin Hunt and Richard Hunt have regularly exhibited artworks and performed traditional dances at Seattle's Legacy Gallery; the work presented in this 1988 show included an array of cannibal bird and transformation masks, rattles, canoe paddles and bent-corner boxes. Shirley Hunt Ford created a button robe based on this poster design.
Poster
26 x 18 in. (66 x 45.7cm)
Gift of Simon Ottenberg
SC2009.2.10
Photo: Scott Leen
