Mervyn Child lives and works in T'sakis (Fort
Rupert, BC). He learned to carve from his family
of well-known artists, notably Calvin Hunt,
George Hunt Jr., and Tom Hunt. Mervyn was
initiated as a Nunsistalis in the Hamatsa Society
at the memorial potlatch for his grandfather the
late chief Thomas Hunt. Mervyn is Kwaguł,
Tlingit, Nuu Chah Nulth, and British.