Public access. Kwakiutl artist Tony Hunt is interviewed.

Stock shots. Shows the process of making a chair from alder with a chain saw.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-02-22 SUMMARY: [No content summary available.];

SUMMARY: Presumably location sounds recorded for use in Imbert Orchard's radio documentary "Far Western Islands" (about life on the Queen Charlotte Islands). The sounds include: a motorboat; welcome song; chopping with an adze; and bells (2 versions).

News item. Johnston Terminals truck crane raises a totem pole at Tony Hunt's carving studio in Vic West. Hunt, a Kwakiutl master carver, says they have over 30 totem poles to do this year, but this is a particularly significant one, because it is going to a new museum in Japan.

SUMMARY: [No content information available.] Presumably, a recording of Haida artist Robert Davidson working on a carving project.

Ethnographic film. Uses Kwakiutl music, carved masks, and images of totems to re-tell the legend of an old chief.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1969 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Tony Hunt discusses Mungo Martin, who was the biggest influence in his life that led to him being a carver. Mr. Hunt discusses work with the Provincial Museum at Thunderbird Park in Victoria; differences in styles in poles among different native peoples; and materials and paints used in carving totems. Then Peter McNair describes the two Kwakiutl styles of carving. TRACK 2: Mr. Peter McNair continues by discussing the history of totem carving in the Queen Charlottes; the connections between totems and clans; the revitalization and preservation of totem poles, including the 'Ksan project; and Thunderbird Park.

News item. Shows Kwakiutl carver Tony Hunt completing his work with a chain saw, and the totem pole being lifted up and out to a flat deck truck on which a crane places it for transport. Background sound only.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-10-26 SUMMARY: [No content summary available.];