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Apr 25, 1951 Alert Bay, British Columbia, Canada 73 years old
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About Richard Hunt Artist
- Richard Hunt (born 1951, Kwakwaka'wakw, formerly "Kwakiutl") is a Canadian First Nations artist from coastal British Columbia. Hunt was born in 1951 at Alert Bay, B.C., but has lived most of his life in Victoria, B.C.
- On his father's side, he is a descendant of the renowned Native ethnologist George Hunt.
- He began carving at the age of thirteen.
- In 1973 he began carving with his father Henry Hunt at Thunderbird Park at the British Columbia Provincial Museum in Victoria. Richard's brothers Tony Hunt and Stanley C.
- Hunt are also carvers. Richard Hunt designed the medals for the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships held Aug.
- 17-21, 2006 at Saanich Commonwealth Place. Among his other projects, he repainted the totem pole at Rideau Hall, which his grandfather Mungo Martin had given to Governor General Lord Alexander in 1946.
