Black-and-white print

Museum number:

13-6829

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21130006829

Alternate number:

13-5964

Accession number:

Acc.4704

Description:

Dave Peri cutting tree with axe, 1961. Henry Hunt, Mamgo Marjui, Samuel Barrett (left to right), watching. B.C. Forest Products, near Sooke, B.C. October 7-8, 1961. Per Door Book/Accession Record: Deve Peri cutting tree with axe, 1961.

Donor:

William R. Heick

Collection place:

Sooke, Capitol Region, Vancouver Island

Collector:

William R. Heick

Collection date:

1961

Person depicted:

Henry Hunt

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Black-and-white prints (photographs)

Accession date:

March 22, 2000

Department:

Still and motion photography

Dimensions:

width 25.4 centimeters and length 35.56 centimeters

Comment:

Per labels provided by Ira Jacknis: Dave Peri felling a cedar tree with an axe, with Henry Hunt, Mungo Martin, and Samuel Barret watching (left-right). B.C. Forest Products, near Sooke, about 20 miles northwest of Victoria), B.C., October 7-8, 1961. For the film on totem poles, Samuel Barrett resorted to reconstruction. He wanted to show the use of stone and bone tools, although artists were then carving with metal blades and power saws. Because it would have taken too long to cut down a tree with the traditional tools, Barrett had his assistant, David Peri, use a metal axe. Henry Hunt, Mungo Martin's son in law and apprentice, went on to become a major artist. After Martin's death in 1962, the B.C. Provincial Museum hired Hunt as a staff carver, who continued his mentor's carving of totem poles and masks for the museum.