Wooden Box - a film of Mungo Martin and Henry Hunt from 1963
Channel: BC History
Date: 2015-01-27

Kwakiutl, Kwakwaka'Wakw, wood carvers Mungo Martin and Henry Hunt make wooden boxes.   The film follows the process from tree to finished product.

It is very interesting to watch the process.

Songs sung by Mungo Martin and Henry Hunt along with their wives

The film is from the Department of Anthropology of the University of California Berkeley 

American Indian Films
Series in Ethnology
Initiated by
A.L. Kroeber PhD
S.A. Barrett PhD

Project Director - S.A. Barrett PhD
Production Coordinator - C.B. Smith
Photography - W.R. Heick, D.W. Peri
Editing - W.R. Heick
Writing - S.A. Barrett, C.C. Macauley
Narrator - A.J. Ostroff
Produced by University Extension, University of California Berkeley

Cooperation:  Provincial Museum Victoria BC (now the Royal BC Museum)
Source material
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMWIcxkTMu8