Tony Hunt

Chief Tony Hunt or Mu-pen-kim Kla-kwa dzee ("Four-Times- Chief Big Copper') is hereditary chief of the Kwakwaka'wakw people of Fort Rupert and Kingcome Inlet, BC. Tony Hunt, his father Henry Hunt and his grandfather, Chief Mungo Martin were the creators of Victoria's Thunderbird Park. Located next to the Royal British Columbia Museum, the park contains a carving shed, a traditional big house, and a collection of totem. Tony Hunt has been an artist all his life, and has designed and carved nearly one hundred full-scale totem poles.